When someone lies about helping, that's not what I am talking about.
This is a thought experiment based on a hyper advanced society capable of easily solving many problems. We don't have that and never have on this planet.
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andyburke
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It's been a long ... time .. since I saw ENT, and I couldn't recall that episode, so I went and read a plot summary and still had a hard time recalling it.
The plot summary makes it seem, to me at least, like a very specific and constructed scenario to try to justify it ex-post-facto in canon.
My major issue with the directive is how general and unnuanced it is. Of course there are cases where you would not want to intervene because of some unique issue. To avoid helping for fear of potential futures is cowardly and unjustified, however.
That's on them.
How is this hypothetical a false premise?
This thought experiment is pretty easy:
if you could alleviate a large amout of suffering and death for a sentient species at little to no cost to yourself, would you?
If you can do that so trivially that it has no negative impact on you, and you do not do it, are you acting ethically?
The answers will be yes and no for most people. To me that makes it clear that neither the Prime Directive nor any kind of all-powerful deity can be moral, at least not humanly moral.
The Prime Directive is immoral.
Shouldn't public servants have to serve the public? All of the public?
If you don't feel like you can serve the public, do not seek a public service position.
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So you're updating your beliefs now that you know facts, right?
... right?
... it's insidious, isn't it?
... the unit circle, in fact! In this talk, I will explain how the Fediverse and rhe Federation are analagous constructs in ...
where is everybody going?
make it a 20 year wait and we have a deal.