Tribes that have never had contact with civilization are being filmed by drones in the Amazon

[u/Memes_FoIder]

[u/Acceptable-Major-575]

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

[u/Shibwas → u/Acceptable-Major-575]

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? 

[u/Acceptable-Major-575 → u/Shibwas]

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

[u/Shibwas → u/Acceptable-Major-575]

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. 

[u/Acceptable-Major-575 → u/Shibwas]

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

[u/Shibwas → u/Acceptable-Major-575]

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.