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To: untenured
I am not against either urban living or modernity. I am a Scientist and I live near L.A.. What I am against is the idea that these people are miserable without us and need us to teach them how to live, or that their life is somehow worse than what they could expect as “el Indio” in the slums of any Hispanic metropolis.
101 posted on 05/29/2008 5:00:32 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: allmendream
What I am against is the idea that these people are miserable without us and need us to teach them how to live, or that their life is somehow worse than what they could expect as “el Indio” in the slums of any Hispanic metropolis.

What I am against any assumption that they are not capable of thinking it through for themselves. They might like (as some Brazilian Indians do) to stay, and they might like to leave. I would reject any argument (which I'm not sure you're making) that we should avoid contact for their own good. There is much bad in the slums of Lima, but there is much bad where they are too.

Modernity is no guarantee of anything, but it gives you possibilities the jungle doesn't, and the jungle at least is there as a fallback. Leaving them as untouched zoo animals, it seems to me, shows them no moral respect.

105 posted on 05/29/2008 6:44:55 PM PDT by untenured
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