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Triassic_Bark t1_j68c565 wrote

Reply to comment by MaliciousHippie in TIL workers dismantling the wrecked MV Primrose off of North Sentinel Island were confronted by the isolated Sentinelese, but defused the situation by giving them bananas and letting them on board to acquire scrap metal. Workers were visited by the Sentinelese 2-3 times a month for 18 months. by CaptainJZH

Why do you assume that tribal law is automatically bad?

Why do you assume they want to go somewhere else? They could build boats and leave if they wanted.

Where would the flu come from?

You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about them and their lives.

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MaliciousHippie t1_j695nss wrote

>Why do you assume that tribal law is automatically bad? >

Little oversight due to lack of peers, I'm sure they still have a justice system of sorts though

>Why do you assume they want to go somewhere else? They could build boats and leave if they wanted. >

I assume most creatures with sentience tend to desire to branch out on occasion, also idk if the isolated North Sentinelese tribe can just up and make a seafaring craft anymore, it's been 60k years since they've arrived on the Island.

>Where would the flu come from? >

Ok sure, maybe not the flu, how about contracting a disease from an infected carcass?

>You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about them and their lives.

Well, since I'm not going to go and meet them anytime soon, then yes, that is what I'm doing, because visiting them would very possibly kill them.

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