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* Childhood diseases

* Stillborn children

* Murder

* Rape

Good point. Since in joining modern society they'd be missing out on those things those things that no longer ever occur, a fair trade would be to introduce them to consumerism and all of the lovely, healthy, meaningful things that includes.

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You make some pretty shitty and arrogant assumptions. Don't judge other cultures by your own horrible standards.

And thank you for illustrating my point better than me.

Please look up "Sarcasm".

Please read the last few bullet points here and then kindly take your foot out of your mouth:

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and...

Are you suggesting they are as common in the modern society as they are in a savage one?

I'm suggesting that your suggestion that we solve those medical problems for them while introducing them to the negative cultural influences of modern society is not really a fair trade.

Especially when these people(and possibly a handful of others in the Amazon) are literally the last remaining people on earth to be unaffected by modern man.

Edit: See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069163

They could be. What do you know? These people have a culture that spans 60 thousand years, way longer than anything that forms the basis of our culture.

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