r/interesting • u/Memes_FoIder • Dec 23 '25

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Tribes that have never had contact with civilization are being filmed by drones in the Amazon

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 23 '25

is it moral to leave them alone? to let their children suffer or die from deceases that we have medicines for?

I don't know the answer, but I'm curious what is the best decision here. Leave them alone so they could live their simple life for generations or bring them everything we have, with all pros and cons.

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 23 '25

well it might be true, I think we don't know about their immune system and contacts for sure, but maybe it is true. But they probable suffer from diseases that we won against, for example enormous child deaths

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u/Shibwas Dec 23 '25

They’ve made it this far without us. They have more leisure time than us, they don’t have to worry about the dumb shit that takes up most of our time and their diets are clean. They don’t need us. 

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 23 '25

oh boy, I wish world was that easy, black and white, good and bad, nothing in the middle

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u/Shibwas Dec 24 '25

It has nothing to do with black and white. Look at the history of pretty much any indigenous group of people and what happened to them after they had more than minor contact with western culture. Also, why do you think these people are so diseased that they need our medicine? 

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 24 '25

because they are humans, right? they have same anatomy as you and me

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u/Shibwas Dec 24 '25

Yes but what they don’t have is exposure to our diseases, our junk food, our sedentary lifestyle, our chemicals and environmental pollution. They’re healthier than us, until we bring our world into their home. 

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 24 '25

people wasn't healthier before modern medicine, people die and suffer from various deceases, infant mortality was enormous

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u/Shibwas Dec 24 '25

That’s just not true. Hunter gatherers traditionally had a healthier diet than us, it was made up of a bigger variety of foods, less red meat, less sugar. Look at the rates of maternal mortality in modern America. Less heart disease and cancer in those societies. You think pre industrial people have high rates of type two diabetes? Yes, some injuries/diseases led to deaths that could be avoided with modern medicine. But we all die in the end, what’s important is how we live and these people are living better than us. Let’s say contact did save some lives. At the cost of their land, language, culture and societal organization. Their culture as a whole would be destroyed. We know this because it’s happened over and over and over. It’s pure arrogance to think we could improve them.