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.

Comments

[agoodwinsmith]

I believe he has committed elaborate suicide, and is guilty[1] of involving other people in his death.

I am sorry for his family, but not much, since he got his ideas from somewhere.

[1] also of other things like self-satisfied stupidity and priveleged arrogance.

[monanotlisa]

Yes! See my comment above.

[jessie_c]

Sam Vines would add "And being bloody stupid" to the charges.

[siderea]

He may yet be a mass murderer. Time will tell.

[conuly]

Some of the comments were going "Well, it's not like he was carrying smallpox" and it's just... no! He could be carrying (but not yet sick with) the common cold and for all we know, these people have no immunity to that!

[agoodwinsmith]

I hope not - but I believe I read something about the islanders burying his body on the beach, so the opportunity is there - especially if he also comes from a "vaccines are for other people" family. He could have been harbouring anything. Selfish little bastard.

[flikkeren]

This was my thought too--that he may have been intending to die. But that may be giving him too much credit.