[TML] A Plague of Spacemen

[Richard Aiken]

On 10/10/07, Stuart Frew <stuart at frew.net.nz> wrote:
> > Look at the trouble it causes here on Earth when we let technology go
> > anywhere.
>
> Ah, but what about humanitarian tech.

A problem in both cases is infrastructure.  If you help tens of
thousands live who would have otherwise died, what are the cascade
effects?  What if the planet's ecology won't support the additional
load?  If you trade iron swords to one tribe, how will this effect
your future market (after they start using them to massacre all the
other tribes)?

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein