| Certainly an ethical dilemma that has been debated over by some very knowledgeable people.
Do we leave them in isolation to carry on their lives without the option to integrate into mainstream world society. Leave them in their little sanctuaries like wild animals confined in a National Park? The arguments are compelling on both sides. They live a primitive life style. Life expectancy is relatively short due to lack of access to even basic health care like antibiotics. Yet over and over again experience has shown that once these lost tribes start to become exposed to the outside world their numbers are decimated by diseases against which they have no immunity and ultimately they end up living in misery as second class citizens on the fringes of the very society that "rescued "them. |