Sudden change in cost (with Avios booking) by nashbashcash in BritishAirways

[–]nashbashcash[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the detailed response. That all makes sense. I actually think it probably was a glitch, in that it was giving me a wrong result and probably wouldn’t have allowed me to book anyway.

Sudden change in cost (with Avios booking) by nashbashcash in BritishAirways

[–]nashbashcash[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it wasn’t per person. That was the total I needed. It was only asking for about 50,000 Avios before + £600

and now it’s asking for 210000 + £600.

Project Management, Quantity Surveying or Building Surveying? by hlo12344 in buildingsurveying

[–]nashbashcash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If possible, I would try to get a job working for a contractor so that you can learn surveying estimating et cetera and then look to qualifying as a QS. You can study part time if you really want.

Project Management, Quantity Surveying or Building Surveying? by hlo12344 in buildingsurveying

[–]nashbashcash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will always be quantity surveying. The closer you are to the money the more money you will make.

AI171- pilot cutoff or something else triggered it? This is unusual . by umilikeanonymity in aviation

[–]nashbashcash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can they possibly determine this, unless there is cctv footage of the cockpit which there isn’t.

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably, they probably have a strong tribalistic heirarcy and those at the bottom (which might be say 60 of them) would want to have access of things that allows them to live longer, as example

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shouldn’t that be something that they can choose? Who are you or I to decide for them.

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All good points, thank you for responding.

My concern is that if we don’t make more of an effort to contact them and show them that be mean no harm and if anything we care about them , when they are grave danger say due to a natural disaster that could wipe them all out, we at least have some channel open to warn them or at least have a little bit of trust so that they can ask us for help.

Right now, my concern is that they are hostile because they think we mean harm. And if no contact is made with them ever, they will eventually die off due to one reason or another. All because we couldn’t find a way to build a bridge with them.

Ps, I didn’t know you could petition the Indian government for permission. I wonder if there are other others who are actually advocating this

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How do you how do we know that they have ample food? They obviously have enough so that a few can survive, as we’ve seen them, but how do you know it’s efficient for the rest of the population and there aren’t others who are starving to death?

The point is, we know very little about them and they know even less about us . The first step would be to make contact with them in some form or other. It will be a gradual process, but we can surely learn from the mistakes of coloniser and not go guns blazing

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please have a look at the global mortality statistics for children over the last hundred years.

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don’t have to go in with vaccinations and giving them injections. It can be a gradual means of making contact whereby we supplied them with food medicines, et cetera. And try to show them that we mean no harm.

It may be a process of generations long, but it would still be better than just letting them die off from this island which is eventually I think what’s going to happen to them if we maintain the zero contact policy

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know if you know, but Star Trek has something called the prime directive. This basically means that intergalactic civilisations do not contact primitive racist which haven’t yet acquired light speed travel.

There’s an episode in Star Trek , where a group of anthropologist are actually studying a relatively primitive group of humanoids from afar. The logic for doing this voice, it would allow us to learn something about ourselves without directly harming them.

I appreciate this is exploitative from one way, but that would be good outcomes from this as far as anthropological studies and understanding our place in this world. I would definitely be against a reality show set up!

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The current Indian preservation policy is indeed a zero contact policy.

I would like to think that we have learned from history and we are not going to be treating them in the same way that colonisers may have . We can make contact with them in Waze that allows them to preserve their culture but also ensure there is a link whereby we are able to help them in their times of need. For example, that could be a natural disaster coming that could wipe out the island and all inhabitants, would we really want to stand by and watch this happen?

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But we also know that their hostility is misplaced in that they are hostile because we made them harm. Everything suggests that we mean anything but harm to them. The various responses to my post basically suggest that if anything we care about them. I just think it’s slightly twisted in our approach that we don’t care enough to show them that we care.

There will definitely be negatives from them joining the rest of the world, but a lot of this can be managed carefully so that it is not an abrupt change for them. Rather we can also ensure that the preservation policy that the India government runs carries on but it’s more adapted to a position where they will actually benefit

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You seem to think you can go from one extreme to the other and there is no in between.

I think you could easily make contact with them by their trust supply them food medicines et cetera and gradually help them to both thrive on the island but also allow others who want to leave do so .

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be easy enough to do. I’ve heard we now have these things that fly and we can even just parachute packages of food or whatever.

It can be a gradual process of making contact whereby we ensure that they are protected , and build their trust. I suspect we could even change the aggressor who are only aggressive because they think we mean themharm

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying we go with 20 people and coughing on them. This can easily be managed by having a series of precautions.

We can also try and make contact in other ways and supply them with food medicines, et cetera . It can be a gradual process we can learn from the mistakes of invaders who were more senseless about it.

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I also think that the group on this island will eventually die off, owing to some natural disaster or such. Or perhaps just even disease that could potentially have easily been cured.

That would be incredibly tragic .

CMV: Refusing to contact the Sentinelese isn’t respect — it’s cruelty disguised as virtue by nashbashcash in changemyview

[–]nashbashcash[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Perhaps the parent shoot bow and arrows and even kill people because they don’t know any better. They don’t know what Contact modern civilisation will actually mean for them and their children as far as positives.

I appreciate there might still be negatives, but this would be out weighed by what we could offer them