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North Sentinel Island is an island de-jure owned by India but is de-facto self-governing. It is illegal to visit the island due to how dangerous it is, along with the risk of spreading diseases that the inhabitants do not have any resistance to.
The island is inhabitated by around 50-500 (true number unknown) indigenous people who have inhabited the island for over 60,000 years. The Sentinelese people are well-known to attack most outsiders who dare to come visit the island. Apparently, one major catalyst was when a British man kidnapped an elderly couple and four children. The couple died and the children were returned but had serious diseases which may have spread to the rest of the islanders.
In 2018, an American tourist illegally visited the island in order to attempt to convert them to Christianity. He was later killed by the Sentinelese.
I don't why, but for some reason, this island is quite fascinating. There is so little known about it. The very concept of an isolated society that wants to be left alone is something that I find interesting.
Have any two cents to give?
Their choice isn't an informed one though since they know nothing about the outside world other than outdated knowledge of a few of the horrors of the 1800s like diseases and british people.
They are incidentally making the right choice now but even once FALGSC is implemented and terf island is returned to the sea they will still be isolating based on the same information.
I think that until the world universally defeats capitalism and settles, and/or there is a great existential risk to the island or the planet/human race in general, we should leave them alone for now.
Personally, regardless of our situation, even if we live in a perfect paradise, I believe the choice should always be theirs.