11-18-2019, 04:31 AM
(11-11-2019, 03:14 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: That's a fair question, but I don't think they are allowed to interfere in the internal development of intelligent civilizations. The Hitler episode was just one in hundreds of horrific episodes in our history. But if we try to interfere in the affairs of another planet by settling on it when we are not qualified, they might not allow this. I'm just guessing, of course! Maybe they will allow it.
But I doubt they are going to help us learn to break the light barrier until we are ready for membership in good standing in the federation. We simply don't measure up now, and at the rate we're going, it may be centuries before we do. I think our behavior in our modern times, including the Hitler episode, and many more incidents even since then (including the Assad horror and our unwillingness to deal with it and our worldwide xenophobic reactions to it, not to mention even our unwillingness to live sustainably on our own planet), proves the point.
Wow, so your Galactics are no better than the terrestrial internationalists. Sovereignty must be inviolable, yadda yadda. Do you seriously think perfected interstellar beings act like that?