The prime directive is an act of mercy. Catapulting an unready race into a foreign world full of things they cannot understand is a how you end up like the abbos in Australia.
"oh but I would be able to handle it"
no you wouldn't, you would be thrust into a world you do not understand and could never have built. the aliens would look at you the way you look at africans or indians or abbos. you would not thank them for giving you life saving medicine or technology to give you the power of a god. you would resent them as all humans have done.
