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]

"Fool"? If he had released anthrax into an office building or a school, because (he claimed) his god told thim to, would you have called him a "fool"?

[conuly]

Yes. Sometimes, stronger words just fail.

[ayebydan]

Exactly.

[ayebydan]

Perhaps not because that is a different circumstance. If a person is told repeatedly that they will be attacked and probably killed if they go a place and then do it anyway then 'fool' seems a good word to sum them up while still polite enough on a new friend's journal.