Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe

Re:Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe by raganwald on Friday February 04, 2011 @06:37PM (#2181839)

I suspect we still agree on the principles. The only thing I am advocating is thinking things through. For example, it is very difficult to interact with them without violating their right to life because it is easy to infect them with a disease. What do we do? Nothing, and let people figure it out for themselves? Put up signs? Or restrict the area to anthropologists who have training in the matter?

I don't personally know what to do about that. I said I'd like to treat them as I'd like to be treated. Personally, I'm glad I have access to the Internet.

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Re:Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe by yummyfajitas on Saturday February 05, 2011 @08:03AM (#2183003)

...it is very difficult to interact with them without violating their right to life because it is easy to infect them with a disease. What do we do?

Ship in a bunch of doctors, and introduce them to disease under medically controlled circumstances. We can't isolate them forever to avoid an epidemic, but we can try to mitigate the impact when it occurs.

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Re:Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe by yummyfajitas on Saturday February 05, 2011 @10:13AM (#2183206)

To those downmodding, do you have a better solution? Should we simply wait for accidental contact (most likely with no doctors present) to wipe out everyone?

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Re:Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe by xenophanes on Friday February 04, 2011 @06:40PM (#2181853)

Fair enough.

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