I don't have any experience with the Amish. What do they do besides hold up traffic?
-abuse horses and other animals -run disgusting puppy mills -have children in school only until age 14 -deny modern medicine in all but the most extreme cases -order large meals at restaurants, are loud and rowdy customers that make a huge mess -don't tip -have a staggeringly high child mortality rate due to lack of safety efforts -make 6 year old children stand at the edge of a busy road in 40 degree weather waiting for the newspaper -complain their newspaper is 20 minutes late when it's so icy people have died that morning on the roads -women must be 100% submissive to their husbands will -there are cases of husbands trying to have sex with their wives hours after child birth -those in OH and western PA shun those that leave the faith
The culture is full of human rights abuse. And if you want to escape it, you do so with a poor middle school education and no friends or family to help you establish a new life.
Some of that is standard cult shit, especially alienating those who leave. Jehovah's Witnesses do it too.