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Re:The Forbidden Island by Anderkent on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:46AM (#6069742)
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 (#6069871)
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 (#6072784)
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.