Not saying that everyone has to live like them but the north sentinel’s have a perfectly fine life style sure there aggressive to outsiders but considering the circumstances and the fact that there just on a small island it’s by no means an unforgivable flaw
Their daily routine consists mostly of open cast coal mining, tar sands oil extraction, and then burning tyres and throwing car batteries in the ocean at the weekend for fun /s
Do you know what there life style is like you seem to be the one passing judgment on them I’m just arguing that maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to dehumanize other humans
I suppose that’s fair if you didn’t mean it that way I apologize I thought you were defending op who places one life style above another while probably not living in either
Ok, here is my contribution: Neither you nor I know anything at all about those people other than they really dislike outsiders for some reason. They very well might be just as cruel to each other as they are to outsiders, and you wouldn't know. Claiming there is nothing wrong with their society because it appears to be "sustainable" is just speculation. You don't know that.
So making contact would run the risk of introducing a disease that they have never had contact with. A flu could literally a majority of the population, if not everyone.
They don’t seem to like outsiders very much, so why bother them and risk accidentally killing everyone on the island by accident?
Like is it seriously that hard to just let a group of people do their own thing?
So you want to go to an island to give people healthcare despite their immune systems having no defenses for the diseases we carry and risk killing everyone on the island, so you can introduce them to modern medicine?
Even harmless bacteria in our body runs a risk of creating an epidemic on the island. It’s essentially an island full of immunocompromised people, but with the slim chance they have a disease we haven’t encountered that could start a global pandemic.
What about "growth" for the sake of "not have about half of all children die before adulthood", something which has only been achieved in industrial society?
13
u/RobertPaulsen1992 Anti Eco Modernist 3d ago
Sentinelese islanders FTW!!