I guess it's always sad when people die....

[conuly]

but there is a reason North Sentinel Island is off-limits. “I have been so nice to them. Why are they so angry and so aggressive?” I don't know, maybe because you were trespassing? They've made it abundantly clear that they don't want visitors.

According to The Washington Post, he did at least get to holler at them (his words, not mine) that Jesus loves them, so I guess his trip wasn't a total waste. (He presumably yelled at them in English. He certainly could not have been speaking their language, because none of us knows what that sounds like.)

With any luck, he didn't get a chance to pass any novel pathogens to these people and the deaths will stop with him.

Edit: Friends are calling him a martyr. I'm not going to say what I think, out of respect for his grieving family, but he's not a damn martyr. He didn't even have a freaking plan.

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[calimac]

A martyr? A martyr for what? You can't be a martyr unless you have a cause.

As I alluded to in my own post linking to the news, this reminds me startlingly of the story of the White Rock Tribe, and I'm still waiting to see if anyone else remembers that story.

[conuly]

I suppose he thought he had a cause. It was just a dumb one, and poorly executed.