You make some pretty shitty and arrogant assumptions. Don't judge other cultures by your own horrible standards.
And thank you for illustrating my point better than me.
Re:The Forbidden Island
by knowaveragejoe on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @09:37AM
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Please read the last few bullet points here and then kindly take your foot out of your mouth:
http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and...
Please look up "Sarcasm".
Are you suggesting they are as common in the modern society as they are in a savage one?
Re:The Forbidden Island
by knowaveragejoe on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:07AM
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I'm suggesting that your suggestion that we solve those medical problems for them while introducing them to the negative cultural influences of modern society is not really a fair trade.
Especially when these people(and possibly a handful of others in the Amazon) are literally the last remaining people on earth to be unaffected by modern man.
Edit: See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069163
Re:The Forbidden Island
by ricardobeat on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:31PM
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They could be. What do you know? These people have a culture that spans 60 thousand years, way longer than anything that forms the basis of our culture.
* Stillborn children
* Murder
* Rape
Good point. Since in joining modern society they'd be missing out on those things those things that no longer ever occur, a fair trade would be to introduce them to consumerism and all of the lovely, healthy, meaningful things that includes.