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Your Sledgehammer posted:2. Mental Health. I know this one sounds ridiculous, but humor me. Anthropologists have shown time and again that mental illness is nearly unheard of in uncivilized peoples. I don't think it is too much of a stretch to say that their lifestyle results in more contentedness, life satisfaction, and just a better perspective on life in general. If you don't believe me that mental illness is incredibly rare among the noncivilized, I'll gladly provide citations. Contrast that with roughly 1 in 5 Americans suffering from some form of mental illness every year. This sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. On its face. Hunter-gatherer societies don't have the detection and diagnosis apparatus available to industrialized nations. It's also foolish to assume given issues are going to be manifested in the same way they would be by someone who grew up in and lives in NYC. Or that because they're not easily detected by laymen or self-reporting that they don't exist. It's entirely plausible that there are way different (and more) stressors in a first-world nation. To say mental illness is all but nonexistent in primitive societies is a huge claim. That said, forcibly de-isolating tribes is a bad idea for numerous reasons that others have given.
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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XMNN posted:Weren't the last "uncontacted" groups in Central America Mayan refugees from the Spanish who were just living in remote agricultural regions? Yeah. Forcing someone to have contact with you for their own good isn't okay, but I have no legal problem with private individuals such as missionaries hiking around public reserves and exercising their free speech with whomever will listen. It's pretty dumb but it's not the same as "okay we're going to take your children to special schools whether you like it not d/w/i" like they did in Australia. Anyone conducting business like logging or oil prospecting (assuming it's legal) is also justified in shooting the poo poo out of any attacking party that puts lives in danger.
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