I mean, that island is kinda small…
Does the resources required to develop the technology that we have, even exist on that island?
Do they just remain “uncontacted” forever?
I mean what even is the ethical thing to do?
On one hand, they don’t have immunity, so we shouldn’t risk them getting diseases, therefore, leave them be.
BUT:
On the other hand, we have the medicine to help them live longer. Shouldn’t we try to gift them our technology so they are better equipped to survive?
What would a philosopher say about this? What does internation laws and the international community say about this?
What’s their future?
What do you personally think about this?
There is more than one way to genocide. Contact likely ends in assimilation, which is functionally a genocide.
For a historical example of this, see the “Stolen Generation” in Australia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
Assimilation is genocide?
I immigrated to the United States as a kid, and grew up mostly under western culture, did the US “genocide” me?
No, but in the 1800s they brought Native Americans into their schools and forced them to be as ‘white’ as possible, and killed those who didn’t conform.
Had they been more successful, most Native Americans would have forgotten all of their culture within a few generations.
Not that I’m in full agreement with the parent comment, but genocide is something that happens to groups of people, not individuals.
It didn’t murder you, but do you keep much of your original culture?
The whole point of the stolen generation policies were to destroy the aboriginals culture. Its not a genocide in the murder sense, but the end result is the same, the group will no longer functionally exist.