The Prime Directive

[Beawulf]

But the prime directive really does protect both parties! For example today' date=' in Australia, alot of the aboriginals are living in distress mainly because of intervention by the european settlers/immigrants, who tried to give them a better life. This ended up with the aboriginals being quite dependent on the help provided by them up till today. For a majority of them anyway.[/quote']

 

good example, that's certainly a dark part of our recent history (stolen generations). If only there a concept of non-interference back then.

[GhostShadow]

Mabe the prime directive is to protect the federation from blam too. They are always useing it as a shield.

[ifilmco]

It's also just ridiculously expensive and taxing to try and maintain a high level of involvement with EVERYbody you come across - it seems that the implication is that the prime directive harkens back more to classical/enlightenment philosophe thinking than it does reflect a progressive futuristic kind of philosophy. An interesting conundrum, to be sure.