Certainly.
Roosevelt rounded up the Japanese and he's still bollocksed for that to this day for just keeping people in cages because they look like the enemy despite protestations of loyalty to the US on their part and honestly it's not their fault that it was illegal to intermarry with other "races" in America at the time that they could be distinguished from the people dropping bombs. Hitler had the legal authority to do everything he did and he was sneaky enough to make sure the wrong people didn't notice or care when he did stuff he wasn't supposed to (if anything, he was like an absolute monarch near the end.). The German people went along and the Government ratified all the racial issues put on the table which put a whole lot of people in camps. Was Hitler tried posthumously for crimes against humanity? As long as Hitler's Government stood, or the following government supported his actions after the fact then he had the legal right to do whatever was legal within his borders.
Morality however is completely different.
You do know that the founding fathers of America were traitors to the colonies and the crown, effectively terrorists and eventually thieves... From an English perspective? And what South Africa got away with for 40 years there abouts? It's all about being Robin Hood. O, get this, some years ago a Police officer tried to insist that the Queen of Great Britain had to wear a seat belt while driving. The first argument against this was that a seatbelt would cause wrinkles in her gowns and such, and she couldn't possibly ever look disheveled when she might be going somewhere important, the following more successful argument was: "The Crown cannot prosecute the Crown" but this was all years before what happened to Diana.
Sometimes it's a good thing to be a criminal and fight the power.
But the Prime Directive says that Janeway has to respect the Laws of Other Cultures, even when they're "wrong" ...so by her oath she has to stomach a lot of barbarism to stand up for her vows of noninterference since if she throws her opinion into a matter or supports one side over another in an argument it could unpredictably shift the power over vast tracts of space and make every thing a thousand times worse and she will be completely at fault. More so, Earth and Federation could be squarely to blame for everything that she forces to go wrong.
I recall that Archer got sent to Klingon prison for trying to rescue slaves belonging to the Duras family. Consequences for doing the right thing can be a real bitch.
Roosevelt rounded up the Japanese and he's still bollocksed for that to this day for just keeping people in cages because they look like the enemy despite protestations of loyalty to the US on their part and honestly it's not their fault that it was illegal to intermarry with other "races" in America at the time that they could be distinguished from the people dropping bombs. Hitler had the legal authority to do everything he did and he was sneaky enough to make sure the wrong people didn't notice or care when he did stuff he wasn't supposed to (if anything, he was like an absolute monarch near the end.). The German people went along and the Government ratified all the racial issues put on the table which put a whole lot of people in camps. Was Hitler tried posthumously for crimes against humanity? As long as Hitler's Government stood, or the following government supported his actions after the fact then he had the legal right to do whatever was legal within his borders.
Morality however is completely different.
You do know that the founding fathers of America were traitors to the colonies and the crown, effectively terrorists and eventually thieves... From an English perspective? And what South Africa got away with for 40 years there abouts? It's all about being Robin Hood. O, get this, some years ago a Police officer tried to insist that the Queen of Great Britain had to wear a seat belt while driving. The first argument against this was that a seatbelt would cause wrinkles in her gowns and such, and she couldn't possibly ever look disheveled when she might be going somewhere important, the following more successful argument was: "The Crown cannot prosecute the Crown" but this was all years before what happened to Diana.
Sometimes it's a good thing to be a criminal and fight the power.
But the Prime Directive says that Janeway has to respect the Laws of Other Cultures, even when they're "wrong" ...so by her oath she has to stomach a lot of barbarism to stand up for her vows of noninterference since if she throws her opinion into a matter or supports one side over another in an argument it could unpredictably shift the power over vast tracts of space and make every thing a thousand times worse and she will be completely at fault. More so, Earth and Federation could be squarely to blame for everything that she forces to go wrong.
I recall that Archer got sent to Klingon prison for trying to rescue slaves belonging to the Duras family. Consequences for doing the right thing can be a real bitch.
