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From: tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter)
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Subject: Re: prime directive
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 18:50:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 18:50:13 1986
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> In article <264@ukecc.UUCP> edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
> >	To carry this to extremes raises this problem. If your most strict
> >rule is non-interference, how do make friends with alien cultures?

> living, growing cultures."  Presumably the PD has numerous clauses
> detailing special cases where it can be violated, as for instance to
> save the entire population of the planet in question, or else to
> correct damage already done by other spacefaring races

I suspect the  PD has a very simple statement in a very few clauses and
many, many precedent cases (all from the Enterprise? :-)).

--johnathan a. tainter
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