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Prime Directive Opinions (startrek.website)
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For those of you here who think the prime directive is flawed, or could be adjusted.

What do you agree with, how would you change what you disagree with, and why?

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

@NVariable @Benfell isn’t this an ‘us vs them’ choice for mutual genocide?

My hot take: we either (a) persuade the virus to stop our genocide or (b) kill it because we could have coexisted if only they’d been able to.

But that has a Corollary: If one deems ‘us vs them’ must be decided in favor of the organism able to coexist without annihilating another (something the virus can’t prevent itself from doing): is human-caused mass-extinction an indictment against us? Seems so.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @cascheranno @NVariable

    For a precedent, consider how we treat nonhuman animals.

    We would shamelessly obliterate the virus.

    And yes, of course we're hypocrites with a human-caused mass extinction event.

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