I have thought about the unsettling possibility that we are presently navigating The Great Filter. It may ultimately be a question of whether our philosophy can

I have thought about the unsettling possibility that we are presently navigating The Great Filter. It may ultimately be a question of whether our philosophy can keep pace with our technology (and right now it is quickly falling behind). But things have looked bleak in the past, and we have found a way to overcome them. The Fermi Paradox doesn't necessarily imply spacefaring civilizations are as rare as they appear to be. It's possible that the vast majority of spacefaring species became spacefaring because they found a way to keep their philosophical understanding on par with their technological understanding. And given that possibility, it might not be a huge leap to assume a Prime Directive-like policy is at play. (There are a number of ways to explain the Fermi Paradox, but this is probably the one I most subscribe to.)