I'm not one for giving up technology and you would never find me living as Amish. I find the idea in part rather creepy at times, an idealism drug out. But nonetheless, I have to respect their compassion. They may just model the one thing society really needs - forgiveness.
Concerning the shooting of some Amish girls at a school in PA, one Amish neighbor went to the family of the shooter and consoled and offered them forgiveness.
It is likely few who would do the same. If I was in that position, I might even want to find blame with the entire family - they should have known something was up. But that was not the apparent response by the larger Amish community. And thank God that there are those who would not act as I might.
One quote about the shooters' family by an Amish man:
I hope they stay around here, and they'll have a lot of friends and a lot of support," Daniel Esh, a 57-year-old Amish artist and woodworker whose three grandnephews were inside the school during the attack, said of the Roberts family
Wow. Forgiveness is an impressive, courageous thing.
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