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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
What's their infant mortality rate? How many of them die of starvation when local food is scarce and traded food is unavailable? How many die of diseases long since cured by modern medicine?
Every one of those deaths are people sacrificed to the idea of cultural purity. What's the preventable death count that we're willing to force on them by refusing contact?
These people aren't a science experiment in post-colonialism white European guilt. The are people, and have a right to shared benefits of human advancement.
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If you go in there, you'll probably be their food.
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