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Here's another point of view: The Prime Directive, used in four of the five Star Trek-based series, prohibits Starfleet personnel from interfering with the int
by tkinom 11y ago
Here's another point of view:
The Prime Directive, used in four of the five Star Trek-based series, prohibits Starfleet personnel from interfering with the internal development of alien civilizations.
I don't mind different countries, societies, civilizations develop on their own place base on their own values.
I believe in diversities, not just diversity of people, and class in one society, but also diversity of societies, countries and value system in our planet and other planets.
I strong dislike to force our societies' "moral/religious" values on other countries as much as other wants to impose their "moral/religious" values on me.
Especially after we see the results of
Invading Iraq because of the WMD
Or Destroy Syria, kill 400K people and make millions homeless because of we claim its leader used chemical weapon on a few hundred.
Or Destroy Libya and turn it into hotbed of Terror because we don't like its leader.
It is OK to let other societies develop, evolve in their own place. Don't force a Electricity, TV, Internet IPad on some isolated tribe in Amazon.
- atemerev 11y agoNo, it's not OK. Concentration camps are not OK. Killing fields are not OK. Brutal tortures are not OK. And North Korea is so evil that Iraq, Libya and Syria are practically well-developed Western countries in comparison. > Don't force a Electricity, TV, Internet IPad on some isolated tribe in Amazon Why the need to force? Just show them once the benefits of civilization and they will happily abandon their old ways, because they are genuinely harder. Yes, we can prevent it for our own curiosity's sake, but this is quite inhumane. And North Korean society is not an isolated tribe. They have elecricity, water and weapons of mass destruction, officially confirmed. The only reason why US or anybody else keeps this atrocity running is the protection of China and (somewhat lesser) or Russia, who do it for their geopolitical reasons.
- tkinom 11y agoIf you know you will kill 400,000 and make millions homeless in Syria, would you act because of the claim of the "chemical war" on a few village? That sounds absolute "evil" when it came out of CNN, ABC, NBC. Those news reports are a lot worst than the claim "Brutal tortures". Would you act to completely destroy a reasonable stable society. How many Iraqis do you need to kill to justify the WMD?
- atemerev 11y agoKilling civilians is wrong in any case. In fact, wars are also wrong — so if any state starts warmongering, it's necessary to take measures to stop the escalation. And who killed those 400,000 Syrians? Americans?
- ant6n 11y agoWhat if that 'Alien Civilization' is in the process of occupying/oppress another 'Alien Civilization'? What if these other aliens would actually like to be helped? Is that still interfering in the internal affairs?