How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
The Ordnung — unwritten, memorised, voted on twice a year.
It is never printed, which is the point: a written rule could be read by outsiders and lawyered by insiders. It covers hat brims and buggy tops and whether the milk cooler may run off a diesel engine, and it differs enough between the forty-odd Amish affiliations that a Swartzentruber and a New Order Amish person would each find the other barely recognisable.
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