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Theyd do exactly what they do in every episode of Star Trek and ignore it if they "need" to.
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Brent
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I suppose we shouldn't make contact with primitive cultures either? I think it is okay in diplomacy to do some of the things the Prime Directive forbids. I certainly think it's okay to influence other cultures as long as it's not done covertly. I'm not completely sure whether we ought to do nationbuilding or not.
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Yeah, I thoiught that the Prime Directive had more to do with avoiding contamination of less developed peoples. Are you saying that we shouldn't be selling Twinkees in Africa?
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Brent
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I guess we should only interfere with nations that have space programs.
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I'd say yes, but I'd use different terminology. I'm all for less involvement in the internal affairs of other states. Unfortunately, this position has been smeared with the label "isolationism," and heaped with scorn from both the left and the neo-con right.
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Maquiladora
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Perhaps he needs a prime directive. Have full sex with a woman, at least once a year.
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quote:
Originally posted by Dissident
and yes, I just got done watching a ST episode.
In this episode, one planet is supplying the other with a narcotic drug that supposedly alleviates the plague symptoms, when in reality just calms down their withdrawal symptoms. The recieving planet doesn't know it's a narcotic drug. Eventually the Enterprise figures out it's a narcotic drug, but they don't interfere with one planet exploiting the other. (though it all works out in the end, because the receiving planet had no working ships to do the drug shipments presumably forcing them to go cold turkey off the drug).
It doesn't necessarily mean you can't contact primitive cultures (as that's unavoidable in many circumstnaces), it just means you don't interfere with their day to day operations. |
No, the Prime Directive forbids introducing advanced technology to less advanced cultures, because they might not know how to use it as wisely like the Federation.
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Imran Siddiqui
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The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:17
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Originally posted by Zkribbler
Well, up until the Bush Administration, the Treaty of Westphalia, which had been around since the 30-Years War, meant you couldn't invade another nation because you disagreed with its internal politics. (Well, yeah sure, the U.S. had our Latin America exception, but that doesn't count.) We could go back to that. |
Um... internal religious politics. European countries sent troops to reinstate monarchs on a number of occasions. And there was that whole Spanish Civil War there.
And, furthermore, the Treaty of Westphalia was a European treaty, divying up Europe, and was so specific that it couldn't lead itself into a worldwide custom.
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Pax
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The U.S. and world needs some kind of ****ing directive.
Just like at my job, I always say "It's a rule until it's not convenient for my boss." When need to make some solid goddamn rules on this planet and make every body stick to 'em.
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Brent
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Eh, we used to have rules, but they're disappearing. The good ones, anyway.
I am the very model of a modern Klingon general. Oops, wrong movie.
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06-04-2005 02:54
It actually provides that each "prince" in Germany has the power to decide the religion for that principality. That concept expanded to mean that each nation had to right to control matters inside its own borders without interference from outside nations.
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