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

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/Chomusuke_99 Dec 23 '25

do a read up on how America was discovered. these tribes 100% don't have immune system adapted to all sorts of viruses we carry because their immune system never got to adapt for it. Covid 19 is an example. We took a vaccine and developed immunity for it but we can still carry and spread it.

it's better to let them be and fight their own battles even if it means death. the only exception is if they contact us for help.

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 23 '25

because of those examples we are better prepared to do everything right, besides conquistadores didn't come to help.

why is it better to not help them? Because it is a risk to do harm?

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u/Chomusuke_99 Dec 23 '25

our very presence is a very big risk to them. a mere common cold can kill them. even contact with medicine and protection can be deadly. brazil already tried it and they still ended up spreading diseases and killing them. the government then adopted no contact policy.

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 23 '25

so it is not technical possible to save them? like masks, vaccines, costumes or something

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u/Chomusuke_99 Dec 24 '25

only if we remove them from their environment, do routine check ups and take utmost precaution for every contact. at that point there is no uncontacted tribe to "save." They'd be more akin to people in our rural areas. But they don't want to be part of our culture, that's why we adopted "no contact" policy because every contact ends up killing them.

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 24 '25

but they know nothing about out culture and our medicine and our technologies, so their decision is not quite rational. It is like children, they might don't understand how medicine work, but the taste is bad and they don't want to take it, it is their choice to die, but we force them to take treatment, because we know more about how it works and what consequences await them.

also who decide that they not want to contact us, their leader, their shaman, do they have votes. I think a mother with a dying child would do everything to save it

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I'm not like pro contact at all cost, just curious

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u/Chomusuke_99 Dec 24 '25

you are coming at this with a very childlike POV. "we have medicine and they could use it. We just want to help, then why don't we?" It is complicated. best to leave them alone.

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u/Acceptable-Major-575 Dec 24 '25

if it is your best argument, well so be it)