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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 25 Nov 2018
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    I'm not that invested in the "should you attempt contact with isolated peoples" debate but it's pretty philosophically interesting, so here goespic.twitter.com/a2V06NrhhU

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      2. Rebecca J. Kavanagh‏ @DrRJKavanagh 25 Nov 2018
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        Did you write this? It's not very "philosophically" compelling.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 25 Nov 2018
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        Yes, I wrote it. It's not a painstakingly-reasoned treatise -- it's an informal, extemporaneous case for why the person's moral intuitions could be laudable, even if his act ultimately lacked justification.

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      2. scientism‏ @mr_scientism 25 Nov 2018
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        You should consider hubris as a moral failing. And also the fact that there's plenty of people damned to eternal hellfire on his view, making his choice of this particular isolated tribe rather odd.

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      3. scientism‏ @mr_scientism 25 Nov 2018
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        The moral logic here is similar to how the US justifies its military adventurism. Unwarranted confidence in its moral superiority, but selects targets in a way that betrays self-interest. Ultimately undermines its good intentions.

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      1. curtis‏ @FowlCanuck 25 Nov 2018
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        It's one of the most insidious things about religious fundamentalism. People doing things they genuinely think are noble, which are to anyone with basic common sense, horrible.

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      1. Julius Mali‏ @bauxietmali 25 Nov 2018
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        That is not so much philosophically interesting as it is not interesting. Torturing babies because you believe it is good for them is not morally praiseworthy, and the self-evidence of this fact is why the above is not a serious stance in moral philosophy.

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      1. Dominic Brady‏ @Dom01191993 25 Nov 2018
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        It is fervent supremacist thinking.

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      1. Simon Whitehead‏ @SimonWh13258279 25 Nov 2018
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        He died a martyr going straight to heaven a good result

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      2. Mike‏ @mdavisjd 25 Nov 2018
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        It’s even more philosophically interesting when you layer technological advancement on top of the problem: is it ethical to bring them modern healthcare, modern ideas, and modern luxuries?

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      1. Ayn - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦‏ @_Philosophica 25 Nov 2018
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        Have you research much in the way of virtue ethics? It’s pretty much what you’re talking about, and a fair chunk of the literature would agree with 5

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      1. Lawyers Guns and Money‏ @CarsonMcMahon3 25 Nov 2018
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        Logic of belief system is not a feature, its a flaw. Logic is the opposite of belief. You can not justify encroachment with what is convenient to a non rigorous system of behavior.

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      2. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements 26 Nov 2018
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        Thank you for clarifying. Of course it was a Vancouver, WA ideologue. There’s no justification to introduce microbes. But the issue is not that you might get killed / tribal people are “dangerous,” but it is wrong: settler colonialism, i.e. pilgrims setting up a theocracy

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      3. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements 26 Nov 2018
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        it’s not moral for folks of industrialized, developed nations to believe they are civilizing othershttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-46301059 …

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      1. AlmostLogical  🇺🇸 🌴‏ @AlmostHollis 27 Nov 2018
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        Sounds like Pueblo Sin Fronteras went to the same missionary training school.

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      2. Jason Hornbuckle‏ @JasonHornbuckle 25 Nov 2018
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        1) you can't prove #3 2) "let people live in a dirt floored hut because if you introduce them to the modern world they might get sick" is not a morally defensible position

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      3. scoop‏ @scooppoopwoop 25 Nov 2018
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        The burden of proof of any belief is always on the believer, so until proven otherwise, it is by default invalid. Secondly the missionary wasn’t there to introduce modern medicine, and any contact might have gotten them seriously ill.

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