The hubris of the young missionary killed in Sentinel Island

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He did nothing wrong except go there. The fisherman that helped him were arrested. There is something going on there NO ONE wants the public to know about and it has nothing to do with natives.

Sigh. And how many other conspiracy theories do you support?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He did nothing wrong except go there. The fisherman that helped him were arrested. There is something going on there NO ONE wants the public to know about and it has nothing to do with natives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, he's dead now, so he's paid his debt fully. As for future contacts, let's hope the various missions educate their people better, and that the Indian government invest in public campaigns to explain the ban.

The ban is pretty well explained and also the island is extremely isolated. Since there is no transportation available to the island because of the ban and since the Indian coastguards patrol the waters, this man did something illegal by bribing fishermen and evading all the patrols that are in place at Port Blair. Maybe this was Karma, eh? Doing God work by illegal means? What was next? Making these women prostitutes? Selling them cigarettes and opioids? Making a resort there for rich foreigners? This was all for a quick buck in the end.

There should not be any future contacts. Who are some fuc%%king foreigners to decide that they need to convert indigenous people, when Indian Anthropologists and Indian Government have ruled that these islanders should not be contacted or even observed because they do not want to be contacted? This island belongs to the indigenous tribes that live on it. And because it is in Indian waters, India has sovereignty over it. Case closed. God of Indigenous people seem to have whooped the ass of Jesus here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He did nothing wrong except go there. The fisherman that helped him were arrested. There is something going on there NO ONE wants the public to know about and it has nothing to do with natives.

Says Faux News?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He did nothing wrong except go there. The fisherman that helped him were arrested. There is something going on there NO ONE wants the public to know about and it has nothing to do with natives.

Ok, I'll bite. What do you think is going on there?

[Anonymous]

Maybe if his body was recovered somehow, one could analyze his brain and see if he was suffering from Mad Cow disease?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:His family requested that those responsible for transporting him near the island not be punished. It’s pretty clear the hubris runs in the family.

Wrong. They were saying it was his decision and he paid the price--no one else should be held accountable for his actions. This sounds like taking responsibility and no laying blame--the opposite of hubris.

It is absolutely not their place to decide who else should or should not be held accountable for assisting him in breaking the law.

Oh, my gosh. do you say the same things when loved ones of murder victims speak up on the perpetrators behalf at sentencing requesting leniency because the "forgive" them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This man is still a danger to the islanders. His rotting body could harbor germs that can still pollute the environment and kill these people. How dare he invade a country. India is a sovereign country. I hope the authorities do not lose any more people trying to retrieve his worthless remains. Furthermore, the friend and the fishermen should be thrown in jail and made an example of!

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I wish they knew that they should burn his filthy body.

What a focking moron.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This man is still a danger to the islanders. His rotting body could harbor germs that can still pollute the environment and kill these people. How dare he invade a country. India is a sovereign country. I hope the authorities do not lose any more people trying to retrieve his worthless remains. Furthermore, the friend and the fishermen should be thrown in jail and made an example of!

The man may have been seriously misguided, but your post is truly offensive. I hope when you or your children die, others make disparaging comments about their rotting, decomposing corpses AND the noxious gases that they omitted even prior to their deaths.

The PP is talking about diseases that the isolated tribe have never encountered and are not resistant to. PP is right. I don't think s/he was trying to be offensive, except for the word "worthless."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:His family requested that those responsible for transporting him near the island not be punished. It’s pretty clear the hubris runs in the family.

Wrong. They were saying it was his decision and he paid the price--no one else should be held accountable for his actions. This sounds like taking responsibility and no laying blame--the opposite of hubris.

The islanders tried to scare him off and injured him first with bow and arrow. He returned two days in a row and each time they injured him more to scare him. He was killed eventually because he escalated it and because the islanders must have guessed that he was insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This man is still a danger to the islanders. His rotting body could harbor germs that can still pollute the environment and kill these people. How dare he invade a country. India is a sovereign country. I hope the authorities do not lose any more people trying to retrieve his worthless remains. Furthermore, the friend and the fishermen should be thrown in jail and made an example of!

The man may have been seriously misguided, but your post is truly offensive. I hope when you or your children die, others make disparaging comments about their rotting, decomposing corpses AND the noxious gases that they omitted even prior to their deaths.

As a biologist, the first PP is right. You have to separate the medical and forensics from the spiritual, second PP. This is a medical issue. OK, the word "worthless" was gratuitous. But everything else is correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His family requested that those responsible for transporting him near the island not be punished. It’s pretty clear the hubris runs in the family.

Wrong. They were saying it was his decision and he paid the price--no one else should be held accountable for his actions. This sounds like taking responsibility and no laying blame--the opposite of hubris.

It is absolutely not their place to decide who else should or should not be held accountable for assisting him in breaking the law.

Oh, my gosh. do you say the same things when loved ones of murder victims speak up on the perpetrators behalf at sentencing requesting leniency because the "forgive" them?

Oh my gosh. You realize that those loved ones are requesting leniency within the bounds of the law, right? Not requesting that law enforcement ignore the law, as the missionary’s family is doing.

Family statement: “We also ask for the release of those friends he had in the Andaman Islands. He ventured out on his own free will and his local contacts need not be persecuted for his own actions”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His family requested that those responsible for transporting him near the island not be punished. It’s pretty clear the hubris runs in the family.

Wrong. They were saying it was his decision and he paid the price--no one else should be held accountable for his actions. This sounds like taking responsibility and no laying blame--the opposite of hubris.

The islanders tried to scare him off and injured him first with bow and arrow. He returned two days in a row and each time they injured him more to scare him. He was killed eventually because he escalated it and because the islanders must have guessed that he was insane.

Oral history is powerful. They may be aware that strangers on their shores bring illness and possibly death, which is why they have developed such a swift response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His family requested that those responsible for transporting him near the island not be punished. It’s pretty clear the hubris runs in the family.

Wrong. They were saying it was his decision and he paid the price--no one else should be held accountable for his actions. This sounds like taking responsibility and no laying blame--the opposite of hubris.

The islanders tried to scare him off and injured him first with bow and arrow. He returned two days in a row and each time they injured him more to scare him. He was killed eventually because he escalated it and because the islanders must have guessed that he was insane.

What an arrogant jackass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His family requested that those responsible for transporting him near the island not be punished. It’s pretty clear the hubris runs in the family.

Wrong. They were saying it was his decision and he paid the price--no one else should be held accountable for his actions. This sounds like taking responsibility and no laying blame--the opposite of hubris.

The islanders tried to scare him off and injured him first with bow and arrow. He returned two days in a row and each time they injured him more to scare him. He was killed eventually because he escalated it and because the islanders must have guessed that he was insane.

Oral history is powerful. They may be aware that strangers on their shores bring illness and possibly death, which is why they have developed such a swift response.

Here’s what previous strangers had brought. I don’t blame them for wanting to stay isolated.
https://twitter.com/respectablelaw/status/1065841141201989632?s=21