This is not a philosophical question so I'm not sure if it fits this community. Even worse, your wording is highly suggestive. If you're so mad about your government "steam-rolling over elderly people" why don't you vent somewhere else?
Philosophy
How is philosophy orthogonal to religion?
When a group claims rights to practice their religion because being forced to go against their religion is unconscionable, and they are rightfully granted their religious freedom while another non-religious group equally considers the same force to be unconscionable, but lack the shield of religious freedom (as they don’t follow a religious text that’s relevant to the matter), how is that not a philosophical discussion?
If you went to a university to get an answer to this, which discipline would you pose the question to if not philosophy department?
and they are rightfully granted their religious freedom
Great, so your hypothetical Amish have already been granted all their hypothetical wishes, so you answered your own question. You didn't post this for answers or discussion, you have all that already. You only posted this trainwreck of a thread to have an outlet for your anger. And now that you have been mad and answered your own question, why don't you bake some bread or do some other useful stuff after maybe deleting this whole episode from lemmy so you don't waste other people's time?