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Originally Posted by HOZ
In a Star Trek world (aka. Perfect world) this is a wonderful position to have. Somebody is going to meet up with them eventually. No point and believing otherwise. Better be it someone who will help them. Inoculations etc...will help these people survive
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Inoculations will probably just cause more trouble. There's
a famous story where an antropologist, trying to help, administered the Edmonston Measles vaccine to a newly-contacted tribe to try to prevent them from dying from measles they catch from the contacters; it killed 15-20% of the people vaccinated. (Granted, this is quite the debate these days -- whether the evidence was forged or not)
That's the risk of totally naive populations being exposed to a live vaccine. (which, for those who care, include MMR, tuberculosis [which has no supporting evidence it works, but I digress] and polio among others)
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Originally Posted by blankall
The tribes people are clearly freaked the @#@ out by the plane, and who knows what seeing that plane is going to do to their society.
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They see airplanes all the time. They don't live in a bubble! I'm sure they just attribute it to the "metal birds" or something else.
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Originally Posted by pylon
As much as I love all my techno gadgets, and all of the amazing scientific discoveries we see daily, I almost envy the simple yet likely brutal, existence these people live. Many days I wish I could put the daily pressures of bills and responsibilities aside, and live a simple, pure existence like these tribesmen, free of the vanity and superficiality we endure on a daily basis.
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I agree - the first thing I think when I see these guys is how bored I get when the internet and cable are down.. ahh, I'll have to find a book to read. But these folks spend their days without anything - just each other and their day-to-day tasks. I'm glad I wasn't born in the 19th century!
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Originally Posted by Thor
Sorry but I find it unethical to do so, the fact these people struggle to even live, let alone exist means they would benefit from careful and staggered contact from the outside world.
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There's tribes that don't want contact and are quite hostile about it. I know of a few in the Amazon, but my favourite is the
Sentinelese in the Andaman Islands. Not only do they not want to be contacted, they aggressively prevent people from doing so. I think they shot arrows at a helicopter checking on them to see if they survived the tsunami.
