(May 11, 2019 at 9:29 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Why does the Prime Directive apply at all?
It's definitely our (humanity's) thing, SOME of the time, but then ("Excuse me sir, have you heard our Lord and Savior!?"). I suspect that any aliens detecting our emissions took one look at those televangelist preachers and are going to give us a pass for a few millennia. Or, maybe realized that humans would make the perfect shock troops in a galactic war...which they no longer participate in.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.