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Re:Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe by nerfhammer on Friday February 04, 2011 @06:54PM (#2181895)
While I agree totally with the points you've made, I don't know how to balance that against the nearly unavoidable side effect that contacting them may very likely end up killing most of them from diseases to which they have no resistance.
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Re:Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe by borism on Friday February 04, 2011 @07:45PM (#2182024)
there is medicine you know, we don't live in XV century?

it's the thought that kills indigenous tribes, not disease.

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