I completely agree that everyone has a right to normalcy.
However, “The Sentinelese” and “Sentinelese Culture” are not moral patients, in my opinion. The individuals are. Each person has the right to choose for themselves how they would live, given adequate information.
I believe that holds true under current capabilities also, but there’s no way to give each Sentinelese person a choice like that without immediate disruption that is likely to make their lives worse.
If future technological capabilities allow wider society to give each Sentinelese person an informed choice of how they should live without likely bad effects, that is what I consider the best path.
My best bet for what we should do with the North Sentinelese—and with everyone post-singularity—is that we uplift them if we think they would “ideally” want that. And “ideally” is in scare quotes because no one knows what that means.
I completely agree that everyone has a right to normalcy.
However, “The Sentinelese” and “Sentinelese Culture” are not moral patients, in my opinion. The individuals are. Each person has the right to choose for themselves how they would live, given adequate information.
I believe that holds true under current capabilities also, but there’s no way to give each Sentinelese person a choice like that without immediate disruption that is likely to make their lives worse.
If future technological capabilities allow wider society to give each Sentinelese person an informed choice of how they should live without likely bad effects, that is what I consider the best path.
My best bet for what we should do with the North Sentinelese—and with everyone post-singularity—is that we uplift them if we think they would “ideally” want that. And “ideally” is in scare quotes because no one knows what that means.