Marvin Edwards
Veteran Member
We removed Hussein and Qaddafi because it was a good thing to get rid of tem becuase they were dictators and undemocratic. Result never ending civil war and destruction. The Star Trek Prime Directive.
Our forign policy continues to be western liberal democarcy is best for the entire world when we keep seeing it is not.
An aboriginal group in the Amazon has a relatively good life with population in balance with resources. You go in and provide inoculations and prenatal care raising the population which exhausts resources. Playing god.
I watched a BBC segment about an area in Africa. Cattle and large families, no starvation, decent shelter, and little education. Start educating people who migrate to cities and end up in poverty. Again the Prime Directive.
One can be an atheist rejecting gods, yet act as if one were god imposing arbitrary morality.
Morality seeks the best good and the least harm for everyone. Ethics seeks the best rules to follow in order to achieve that result
Simplistic at best. What is the best good? This is all pop slogans. Chines communists say the best good fr the country is centralized authoritarian control and enforced conformity.
The Star Trek Prime Directive says you do not tinker in other cultures even with best intentions because yoou can not see all ends.
You've pointed out the unseen harms of the U.S. trying to solve other countries problems. So, you are applying the definition of moral judgment: seeking the best good and least harm for everyone. And you are proposing an ethical rule, the Prime Directive, as the best way to avoid creating unnecessary harm.