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abso-bloody-lutely spot on
why are we assuming they can't cope with desease and die early deaths ? I bet they are damn more healthy than us ! with all the crap we eat we dare to suggest they "need" our medical advancement i bet they could match almost any of our DRUGS with natural remedies why are we so ignorant of just how shit we have made our own lives and illude ourselves we have quality of life. I bet none of those people are suffering from illness or metal problems and that most certainly their way of living does not cause them harm such as we do to ourselves. they are
still around and that means they can certainly manage themselves the only time they will be threatened will be when we cut the forest down and we shouldn't be doing that for out own good !
I was half serious with the human rights comment, according to the UN's own bs they cant determine themselves if they dont know what state they live under or what a nation state is.
I think lawyers should be parachuted in pronto. Or another item be added to the list of bullshit blabbed by governments and the UN.
Don't be ridiculous. That's a very romantic view of their life. It's guaranteed that the life expectancy is very low, infant mortality rate will be extremely high, deaths of women in childbirth will be reasonably high, dental diseases and problems that can kill you in a place like that are quite high. None of these things have natural remedies, and to suggest they could match centuries of scientific research and worldwide sharing of knowledge between around 5 billion people, with things they find in the forest is ridiculous. The best you could say is that on the flip size, they also haven't been sharing diseases and viruses with the other 5 billion people for the past few centuries either. I agree with you that this isn't a reason to impose change on them, but let's not suggest they have some kind of idyllic life where everything is zipadee-do-da and death doesn't exist.
I don't mean to romanticies all I'm saying is they have a way of life and wow they've made it so far, in case you forgot theres also something called natural selection they are healthy not so much because of remedies they have but simply because if they are unfit to survive they die and the strongest live on. our culture is based differently we cure out mortal problems and then pass them on to our children ! in such a small group there no doubt is a certain level lets say of "incest" not that that is the correct word hence the ones that survive are tough because the slightest problem comes out immediately and those carrying weak genes dye off.
If it aint broke dont fix it.
If they contact us - fine. If they dont, leave them be
P.S. The Aztecs were central America, not South America.
quite and in the north part of south america (Peru) it was the incas i beleive there were many more tribves than we often realize and don't even bother to wonder why they are so similar even though they hardly ever met !
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Yes... I would love to trek the Andes.
quite from the little i have seen they are criminals full stop, I might be biased but its based simply on what I've seen and working for a company that scraps alluminium radiators we see plenty of them !
i haven't read the rest of the thread yet and figured out how gisys got into this
There are no communities naive enough to think that they are alone, there never have been. If they want us they'll let us know. Until they do, what's wrong with leaving them to it?
I find it quite sad that some poster in this thread have tried to claim that we're more "enlightened" than "savage" tribes of people. We might have better drugs but we also leave people dying by the side of the road if they don't have enough money. It's all a bit Brave New World to me.
I'd say thats quite true if they didn't know about us they would think the plane was of the gods or something and be bowing to it not shooting arrows I'm sure they know who we are