Re: Things presented in-story as Good Ideas that seem like really Bad Ideas

On 9/9/2024 3:01 AM, Charles Packer wrote:

On 9 Sep 2024 03:49:05 GMT, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
 

Lucky Starr's "Council Of Science", the Venus Belt, the Federation's
"Prime Directive".  Things like that.
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Examples?
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(How about we exempt Super-Powered Vigilantes)

 For "Prime Directive," did you have in mind "With Folded Hands"
by Jack Williamson?
 

My first thought was James Alan Gardner's 'Expendables' series.
The League of Peoples, the league of all the entities that started
evolving long before we did has a rule that no non-sentient
may travel between star systems.  Anybody who kills is considered
non-sentient.  So as quick as they leave their solar system
they die. I think that is the prime directive, but I don't want
to have to read through one of the books to make sure.
By the way, the series is quite a good one.
Bill