Mary Madigan
2008-06-11 07:15:59

“A half decent argument can be made that some of them should be arrested for crimes against humanity.”

That’s not a bad idea. If they can’t be arrested, they could probably be sued.

“The empirical evidence, however, is abundantly clear that soon they will eagerly embrace the benefits of modern society.”

Well, there’s the problem of the introduction of new diseases.

Most civilized countries make an effort to preserve their wild spaces, and to provide some land for cultures that don’t want to live like us. If this Indian group, like a kind of red-painted, arrow-shooting Amish, want to live apart from us, avoiding modern life and new technology, it probably wouldn’t be much of a problem to let them do it.

There’s no proof that their privacy was ever threatened by the modern world. So far, their privacy has only been threatened by environmentalists.