…personally, I’d d say “Good Riddance!”. One of the last uncontacted peoples, and this dumb fuck tried to preach at them. Never mind the morality of proselytising, or of lying in order to do so, did this cunt not consider the possibility of him spreading diseases?
Also glad his enablers have been arrested. Fuck them, too.
He went back to the island after coming out to the boat with arrow injuries? Some people can’t take a hint.
You’re right that he could have killed the entire tribe by introducing diseases (and actually, he quite possibly has). When I was working in a remote area of Peru where there was the possibility of encountering uncontacted tribes, we were required to get immunizations against something like 13 different diseases.
What an idiot!
I need a sign on my front gate: “Warning, Sentinelese inhabitants. missionaries/proselytizers beware.”
Maybe a head on a spike just to make the point.
Darwinism +1
The power of Christ compels some people to do stupid things.
Yes he’s stupid, but what about the language issue? Did he speak Sentinelese or even Hindi? I really doubt they understood English.
Well, they could communicate with him, even if he couldn’t communicate with them. Arrows have the same meaning in every language.
No one speaks Sentinelese except the Sentinelese and as far as anyone can tell they don’t speak anything else. It isn’t even mutually intelligible with the language of nearby islands. Preaching to them in any language is going to be a bit like lecturing an angry bear - it isn’t likely to work out that well.
In fairness, he eventually got the point.
Part of me wonders how many intruders Adam & Eve (and family) slaughtered when they were still living in the garden.
And immediately after, he got shafted.
The lesson he learned will stay with him the rest of his life.
Old joke I heard once:
It seems a Christian missionary was visiting with remote Inuit (aka, Eskimo) people in the Arctic, and had explained to this particular man that if one believed in Jesus, one would would go to heaven, while those who didn’t, would go to hell.
The Inuit asked, "What about all the people who have never heard of your Jesus? Are they all going to hell?’
The missionary explained, “No, of course not. God wants you to have a choice. God is a merciful God, he would never send anyone to hell who’d never heard of Jesus.”
The Inuit replied, “So why did you tell me?”
Can’t we just text them?
I guess they don’t like millennials either.
My pet theory is that, if not recently then not all that long ago historically speaking, members of that tribe had some contact with the mainland themselves or with nearby islanders who did. Either way they learned enough to bring them to implement their present sensible policy of killing any stranger who lands on the island and melting away into the forest when confronted with a large or armed group.
Here’s the actual online Fox headline:
American killed by bow and arrow-wielding tribe while trying to visit remote Indian island
I will provide no link because fuck Faux.
What a maroon!
True statement. When flung at you in anger, I have understood them to mean “go back that way (the way you came).”
Tripler
Those statements are not lost in translation.
I demand the administration enforce a strict trade embargo with the Sentinelese!