Not Killing

"The Live Coward."

The Prime Directive of the Galactic League is:

"'"Under no circumstances whatsoever may the Patrol or any unit thereof kill any intelligent being."'" (p. 251)

This reminds us of Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics: 

"A robot may not harm a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm."

-sf readers recite this from memory.

- and the unbreakable rule of James Blish's Service:

"The date of death of a sentient entity must never be mentioned in a Dirac 'cast."

-see Event Police.

Wing Alak's green, caterpillar-like colleague, Drogs the Galmathian, says that only a bloodthirsty species would need to formulate such a Prime Directive -

- which, I think, is a good place for us to end tonight. 

(In Volume III of Fleming's Bond series and also in Volume III of Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, a character commits murder, then suicide, but, as I said, let's end this now!)