[Ramius]

According to Miriam Ross of Survival International, which campaigns to protect the world's remaining indigenous peoples, 'These tribes represent the incredible diversity of humankind. Unless we want to condemn yet more of the earth's peoples to extinction, we must respect their choice. Any contact they have with outsiders must happen in their own time and on their own terms.'

Nothing quite like the soft bigotry of arrogant elitists that assume the myth of the Noble Savage. They must be morally superior to us because they live such brutish, harsh-- and likely short-- lives.

Don't even think of letting them have that dastardly refrigeration.

Sure, there's nothing wrong with living a simple life. Much to be said for it actually. But to ascribe a moral superiority to lives lived largely in constant desparation devoid of "modern" comforts is just elitist and arrogant. I would note that the people who think these things still seem to go home to their nice comfortable suburban home with central heat and cable TV. ~They~ don't live in a hut and hunt for their next meal.

[tbw2]

Don’t forget death by malaria, childbirth, and puma/cougar consumption.