American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island
It is fascinating - and unsettling - how many people react to this on range of &quot;ha-ha, stupid medieval idiot, deserved to be murdered&quot; to &quot;typical American!&quot;.<p>I know some cultures don&#x27;t value human life as high as we in the Western culture do, and murdering people for trespassing on some taboo barely comprehensible to outsiders is not very far from our culture either. But what I see is a person trying to do a subjectively good thing to the islanders (even though one can certainly disagree about it being objectively good, but it&#x27;s clear he meant absolutely no harm to them) and objectively at least not doing anything we&#x27;d consider harmful - getting murdered.<p>I don&#x27;t think it warrants derision and mockery that I am reading here, and I don&#x27;t think such reaction would follow if he wasn&#x27;t an American Christian. It is true than in the past Christians participated in many atrocities (not that it&#x27;s in any way unique to Christians), including against indigenous people - but this person has nothing to do with it. He meant no harm, and he got murdered for it. It is tragic, and should not be a place to make fun of his religion (even if you consider it and all religions stupid in general, there are many more befitting opportunities to make fun of them than a murder of an innocent person) and blaming him for being American.<p>Yes, maybe he is not the cleverest cookie in the jar, and he probably shouldn&#x27;t have done what he did. But making fun of his murder goes far beyond that, and I am positively horrified of how many people jump into that so readily and with such gusto.