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conulybut 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.
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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Date: 2018-11-24 11:32 pm (UTC)Americapox: The Missing Plague
https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk
Europeans were an extinction-level event to every native culture they encountered. (When American missionaries showed up to “civilize them,” 90% of Hawaiians went to Jesus the hard way. Every Hawaiian today is descended from the one in ten who accidentally survived.)
Why weren’t just deserts served?