Ben's feelings on the matter would be rather nuanced. The Prime Directive is good to have for the reasons Dartz mentioned. Uplifting a race is messy business in every sense.
On the other hand, letting entire races go extinct from planetary cataclysms is morally repugnant. Not that Starfleet doesn't try, but they seem to draw the line at relocating peoples when worse comes to worse. That would be where Benjamin would call them out. Yes, it would be troublesome, but if doing the right thing was always easy, then the universe would be a very different place.
In any case, it'll be important when dealing with the UFoP to not be too self-righteous. They're hampered in that they're a representative democracy, which means that they have all the same issues we do, only taken to a whole new level because there's some pretty radically different cultures out there... And the Prime Directive has ingrained a certain sort of hands-off approach when dealing with cultures that have... quirks.
On the other hand, letting entire races go extinct from planetary cataclysms is morally repugnant. Not that Starfleet doesn't try, but they seem to draw the line at relocating peoples when worse comes to worse. That would be where Benjamin would call them out. Yes, it would be troublesome, but if doing the right thing was always easy, then the universe would be a very different place.
In any case, it'll be important when dealing with the UFoP to not be too self-righteous. They're hampered in that they're a representative democracy, which means that they have all the same issues we do, only taken to a whole new level because there's some pretty radically different cultures out there... And the Prime Directive has ingrained a certain sort of hands-off approach when dealing with cultures that have... quirks.