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

[siderea]

You understand he may be the death of some or all of the people on that island? We usually term people like that "mass murderers".

"But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’"

I dunno, he's your Jesus, not mine. But the version I heard about is pretty clear that he did all the explaining he's gonna do, and pretty clear about what was gonna happen.

[kengr]

He's *far* from the first idiot to die trying to make contact with them.

They've made it very clear that they don't want anything to do with outsiders, and wonder of wonders, the country that "owns" the area decided long ago that it wasn't worth the effort to try to convince them otherwise.

Instead, they made it illegal to go to the island.

*They* aren't going to be doing any sort of "reprisals". And it's not likely they'd let anybody else do it either.

This is hardly the only place on earth where attempting to enter an area will get you killed. Several national borders are or have been like that.

Also "mass murderer" refers to people that kill large numbers of people, usually in big batches. These islanders have never killed large numbers of people. Then again, there have never been large numbers of outsiders for them to kill.

[siderea]

Read my comment again.