[lit-ideas] Re: What about those Quakers?
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:09:22 -0700 (PDT)
--- Scribe1865@xxxxxxx wrote:
" This group
> landed at Philadelphia on
> 20 August 1683 and on a second ship 6 October 1683.
> They were largely
> tradespeople and farmers, and several records exist
> of them fighting off (or surviving)
> "Indian attacks" in areas of southeastern
> Pennsylvania. It's highly unlikely
> that Penn paid these people to defend themselves.
>
> But the land grants and tolerance that William Penn
> offered also drew a bunch
> of religious groups to PA, who probably had varying
> beliefs regarding
> self-defense, including: the Tunkers, Labadists, New
> Born, New Mooners, Separatists,
> Zion's Brueder, Ronsdorfer, Inspired Quietists,
> Gichtellians, Depellians,
> Mountain Men, River Brethren, Brinser Brethren, The
> Society of Women in the
> Wilderness, and the Amish.
Is it implied here that the only form of violent
conduct the colonists were engaging in was
self-defense ? Was the legitimacy of self-defense the
only moral dilemma they had occasion to face ?
O.K.
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