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Do some people here agree with the 'prime directive' approach in general? I think its not very good myself, for the same reasons one might contact and exchange ideas with tribes that have no knowledge about the rest of the world.
I've reasoned about this too.
The obvious moral thing to do about a species is to save them from an exploding sun, if they do not have the technological means to save themselves.
On the other side, "in fiction" it can be justified by a slippery slope: start by saving a civilization today, tomorrow you're patronizing another, after a decade you're relocating another because you need their healing gas... Oops!
The prime directive is acknowledging that the Federation (the human mind?) is too fragile not to succumb to such temptations.