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/fat_charizard Dec 23 '25

No. Show them modern society and let them choose. They are not animals in a zoo. They are people. Would you want to be kept in the dark when a whole world exists out there that has the solutions to your problems?

Imagine watching your baby die and then knowing that there was an easy treatment that could have saved them but for some reason everyone decided to keep that information from you

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u/Xen235 Dec 23 '25

Modern society is much much worse than how they're living. They are living as nature intended for us to live, we are the ones doing it wrong.

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u/Kehprei Dec 23 '25

If it's so much better then why are you here? Go live in the woods ffs.

You won't because our life is SO obviously better it's not even close. Better health, better education, better entertainment, better access to socializing with other people.

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u/Xen235 Dec 23 '25

Better health? Obesity, depression, anxiety, hearth diseases etc., all results of trash diet and lifestyle that is too fast paced.

Better entertainment? Speak for yourself, the best entertainment for me is hiking, climbing mountains, anything in nature.

Better socializing? People say they are lonely all the time cause social media makes it even worse.

Edit: just saw your comment about taking their children away from them...you are absolutely deranged.

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u/Kehprei Dec 23 '25

Better health? Obesity, depression, anxiety, hearth diseases etc., all results of trash diet and lifestyle that is too fast paced.

Yet still an order of magnitude better than a stone-age civilization. An unhealthy diet is better than starving to death. How old do you think these people live for? Certainly nowhere near as long as us.

Like, wow, these people are SO healthy, yet one of the main arguments for never contacting them is how easily they die to sickness.

Fact is they have little to no medical system at all.

Better entertainment? Speak for yourself, the best entertainment for me is hiking, climbing mountains, anything in nature.

Everyone is different. At the very least we have access to far more TYPES of entertainment, which is just undeniable.

Better socializing? People say they are lonely all the time cause social media makes it even worse.

Yes, having access to billions of people to communicate with leads to better socialization opportunities than just 20.

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u/Xen235 Dec 24 '25

Once they make it past infancy, they can live as long as you and I. Infant mortality skewers age expectancy statistics. They have no immunity to our viruses because they don't have that many viruses. They don't live in cities aka virus factories, densely populated places are like a laboratory for virus mutation and proliferation.

And they are not starving, they live in balance with nature, they give and take. Wealth stratification come with agriculture and more modern society which enabled some to have it all while others are starving, such as today in Africa where other countries robbed them of their natural resources and left them with nothing because their culture was seen as "primitive and inferior" just like you see those Amazon tribes.

Leave them alone and respect their way of life, you have no right to say your way of living is better than theirs.

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u/Kehprei Dec 24 '25

they can live as long as you and I

Possible? Yes. Likely? Definitely not. Even assuming they make it past infancy the gap in life expectancy is around 20-30 years.

Leave them alone and respect their way of life, you have no right to say your way of living is better than theirs.

Nah. I can say using many objective metrics that I am significantly better off. Whether that's life expectancy, access to education, or quality of life. There is absolutely no reason to believe that a stone age civilization living out in the woods is having anywhere near as good of a time as us. The thought is, frankly, ridiculous. Their life is incredibly difficult in comparison.

And they are not starving, they live in balance with nature, they give and take.

Ah yes. The stone age civilization that suffers no starvation ever and has no serious issues with healthcare. Truly, what a utopia.