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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[swingandswirl]

As someone from India... fuck this guy with a rusty chainsaw, and I hope (if there is an afterlife) God gives him an earful before sending him straight to Hell where he belongs, the racist, imperialist, utterly asinine piece of shit.

I think the thing that makes the most furious is that the Sentinelese TRIED being nice (for them.) And yet this asshole is so convinced of his delusion that he goes back a third time. Ugh.

As for his friends and family... sorry, no sympathy here. Some people are just too fucking stupid to continue to exist. I just hope he doesn't take any of the Sentinelese with him.