The hubris of the young missionary killed in Sentinel Island

[Anonymous]

A colonizer getting killed via bow and arrow certainly perked up my Thanksgiving.

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Was this deliberate? White people have done this before. They gave contaminated blankets to Native Indians so that they could become ill and die? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics#Disease_as_a_weapon_against_Native_Americans

Did someone deliberately send a diseased missionary to this isolated island so that a tribe that is less than 20 members strong succumbs to Western diseases? Wonder what diseases this missionary was carrying? Herpes? HIV? Chlamydia? Shingles? MSRA? H1NI? Zika? Wondered who financed him because he spread some bribe money around to reach this place in spite of the ban.

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Anonymous wrote:A colonizer getting killed via bow and arrow certainly perked up my Thanksgiving.

Amen!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Was this deliberate? White people have done this before. They gave contaminated blankets to Native Indians so that they could become ill and die? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics#Disease_as_a_weapon_against_Native_Americans

Did someone deliberately send a diseased missionary to this isolated island so that a tribe that is less than 20 members strong succumbs to Western diseases? Wonder what diseases this missionary was carrying? Herpes? HIV? Chlamydia? Shingles? MSRA? H1NI? Zika? Wondered who financed him because he spread some bribe money around to reach this place in spite of the ban.

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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.

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.

Hopefully! Just leave them alone. They don’t need Western civilization.

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https://indianexpress.com/article/india/north-sentinel-andaman-a-veteran-expert-has-a-way-out-coconuts-iron-and-some-caution-5460286/

No need to get the body, but if they can burn it somehow on site it will be better. Indian Govt should first ask the mission that funded this trip to pay for the expenses.

This dead crazy man, single handedly got the poor fishermen in trouble and now these breadwinners are rotting in the prison while their families are starving. Perhaps his family can send money to these people? Or one of the Faux TV evangelists?

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Anonymous wrote:Was this deliberate? White people have done this before. They gave contaminated blankets to Native Indians so that they could become ill and die? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics#Disease_as_a_weapon_against_Native_Americans

Did someone deliberately send a diseased missionary to this isolated island so that a tribe that is less than 20 members strong succumbs to Western diseases? Wonder what diseases this missionary was carrying? Herpes? HIV? Chlamydia? Shingles? MSRA? H1NI? Zika? Wondered who financed him because he spread some bribe money around to reach this place in spite of the ban.

It is time to change your tinfoil.

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Anonymous wrote:A colonizer getting killed via bow and arrow certainly perked up my Thanksgiving.

Amen!!!

+2

Missionaries spreading their religious ideologies get no sympathy from me - a purely selfish phenomenon. Leave the locals alone - they do not need your "saving."

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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.

This guy knew about the ban - lack of publicity wasn’t his issue.

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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?

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”

I’m not bothered by his family’s statement. Basically, it’s a nice way of saying, we acknowledge it was our kid’s fault.

[Anonymous]

US Missionaries should be helping people in the US who are drowning under the various natural and man-made disasters that this country has been cursed with the past two years.

Charity begins at home.

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Anonymous wrote:US Missionaries should be helping people in the US who are drowning under the various natural and man-made disasters that this country has been cursed with the past two years.

Charity begins at home.

Admittedly, I took this from Reddit. But drills home the fact that these religious missionaries do what they do simply to feed their own selfishness - it has nothing to do with charity for others.

There's an old joke where a Christian missionary visited the Inuit of the Arctic Circle, and was explaining to an Inuit man that if one believed in Jesus, one would would go to heaven, while those who didn't, would go to hell.

The Inuq asked, "What about all the people who have never heard of your Jesus? Are they all going to hell?'

The missionary explained, "No, of course not. God wants you to have a choice. God is a merciful God, he would never send anyone to hell who'd never heard of Jesus."

The Inuq replied, "So why did you tell me?"

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Atheists, who fancy themselves oh so smart, just don’t understand.

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Anonymous wrote:Atheists, who fancy themselves oh so smart, just don’t understand.

This has nothing to do with atheism - there are people of faith who have a conscience, and understand that other human beings deserve to be respected for their differences in how they conceptualize the world.

Remember - pride and arrogance are sins. You do you. But leave others well alone.

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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.

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

Thank you! That was a fascinating read. There are an estimated 15 people on this island. Did he even bring coconuts? How in was he going to communicate with them? Madness. I agree that the headline should be "tribe defends themselves from a religious zealot" instead.