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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none. What can they trade ? Knowledge about their way of living, genomic studies, dieting habits, linguistic analysis,
by johnchristopher 13y ago
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none.
What can they trade ? Knowledge about their way of living, genomic studies, dieting habits, linguistic analysis, anthropological studies of they way they represent the world.
Last both are really dangerous to them because those interactions will alter their culture in significant ways.
The first one are highly valuable.*
What can we trade ? A lot. What can we trade that wouldn't annihilate their core identity ? I can't think of anything yet.
* but not yet as valuable as oil, diamonds or uranium otherwise the Indian authorities would have adopted a very different set of directives.
- DanBC 13y ago> What can they trade ? [...] genomic studies and interesting genes will be stolen from them and patented.
- chronic25 13y agoAnd I would do this 10x over if proved to be profitable.
- jljljl 13y agoThe first paragraph reads disturbingly like the reason we should make contact with them is because the people themselves are resources to be harvested. Phrased like this, it's a really good reason why we should not make contact, because ultimately the primary thing we would gain from such contact is exploiting the people themselves.
- johnchristopher 13y agoI didn't say we have to gut them. We can talk to them and then nicely ask to pick up some stool and blood samples. Frankly, I am more concerned about this argument I read in this thread : "We should do it for their children because they aren't given a choice by their parents get in touch with us and it isn't fair." That, is supremacy and way more dangerous than curiosity as an ideology.