There is a serious problem where we made a mistake to some degree feeding and curing illness in the developing world.

We then got pulled into being responsible for regulating their population as a result. The impact that has had as we were basically not just being good Samaritans and feeding starving people or disease but also increasing their population rather than them solving these problems for themselves.

The moment we did that we did that we were controlling their population and it's a moral trap. Once you go in it's very hard to get back out. You stop some amount of people dying and then there are ten times more and if you stop now ten times more die and then there are a hundred times more depending on you.

For primitive countries the resulting population explosion has been disastrous for their development and self reliance.

People have been posting that prime directive video but I really don't think they fully understand how it applies to us today, how badly we messed up with good intentions and how dire the resulting situation is.

There is a serious problem where we made a mistake to some degree feeding and curing illness in the developing world.

We then got pulled into being responsible for regulating their population as a result. The impact that has had as we were basically not just being good Samaritans and feeding starvation or disease but also increasing their population rather than them solving these problems for themselves.

The moment we did that we did that we were controlling their population and it's a moral trap. Once you go in it's very hard to get back out. You stop some amount of people dying and then there are ten times more and if you stop now ten times more die and then there are a hundred times more depending on you.

For primitive countries the resulting population explosion has been disastrous for their development and self reliance.

People have been posting that prime directive video but I really don't think they fully understand how it applies to us today, how badly we messed up with good intentions and how dire the resulting situation is.