Indigenous People

The many tribes of Native Americans and the aboriginals of Australia are/were among the world's reported indigenous people, people who were native inhabitants of various areas before their discovery by outsiders.  Indigenous people, like all other people, have the ability to directly grasp the laws of logic (which they are already relying on) to the extent of at least directly knowing logical axioms as self-evident and intrinsically true; indigenous people, like most other people, have often chosen to believe the impossibilities and assumptions of irrationalism.  One might encounter political liberals who say that indigenous people have some sort of philosophical enlightenment and moral superiority over others, yet not only is this epistemologically fallacious, but many of its tenets are also logically impossible.

A more direct lifestyle connection with nature, a more community-oriented, relaxed way of life, and other things associated with certain indigenous communities are in no way rational just because they are traditional to those specific groups, and even if the entire worldview of a given indigenous population was valid, they would not be justified in believing in it because of assumptions.  Either an inability to logically prove (not scientifically support, logically prove) an idea or choosing to merely assume a provable concept is asinine and cannot be deserving of any sort of toleration.  Rather than examining these ideas to see if they are true by necessity or verifiable through the intrinsic truth of reason, some liberals think that merely being embraced by native people makes a worldview true or at least valid on the level of belief when nothing is true or knowable apart from reason and many indigenous philosophies are false or largely unprovable.

Their laws do not deserve to be respected on the basis of them being established by indigenous people, as only correspondence to objective moral obligations and complete logical possibility could make a given set of laws valid, and even then there would need to be evidence pointing to those laws reflecting God's nature and not just the subjective consciences of humans.  This is not racist or nationalist idiocy.  If their laws are only personal preferences or cultural constructs/norms, then they are just as false and meaningless as the invalid laws of any other country or community that were established by fools.  Their metaphysical and epistemological soundness is what makes a person greater than the bare minimum necessitates by human rights (if they exist), and neither indigenous nor "Western" society is composed of a single person to begin with.

All of these people stand or fall on their own rationality or lack of it, and like most people of every era and location, the indigenous are not rationalistic by default and in most cases are utter irrationalists.  The liberal tendency to exalt the fallacies, assumptions, and social constructs of native people groups goes beyond acknowledging that if human rights exist, all people, no matter how obscure or ignored they might be, have those rights.  It is driven by the relativistic, irrationalistic errors of thinking that the indigenous people of the world are intellectually or morally superior to people from other cultures because of the happenstance circumstances of their birth and geography, and this is a horrendous betrayal of reason, in part because it itself is racist: the laws of logic dictate truth, not native tradition or Western norms, and the laws of logic are accessible to all people.

It is not even that many of them do not have technology or as prominent a culturally-normalized gravitation towards scientific advancement as Western nations.  First of all, science is inferior in every way to reason, so a lack of the same emphasis on technology cannot inherently be the issue if there is a problem with a given indigenous culture.  Philosophical errors like irrationalistic forms of mysticism, assumed forms of polytheism, conscience or culture-based moral epistemology, general emotionalistic love of nature, apathy towards necessary truths and absolute certainty, and all other kinds of irrational stances are just as metaphysically false or epistemologically erroneous when held by the indigenous as when held by others.