John Allen Chau - American missionary who prepared for his meeting with the Sentinelese by training in a mock village populated by staff pretending to be hostile natives wielding fake spears (en.wikipedia.org)

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago

That idiot could have killed everyone on the island by introducing new pathogens, and he came there with the intent of destroying their culture on top of it. I'm glad they killed him.

[-] Froyn@kbin.social 39 points 11 months ago

They didn't kill him, his God let him die.

[-] Algaroth@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I like how you think.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

First thing God's done right in millennia

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