In TOS, how should Kirk's Prime Directive violations be viewed?

The Prime Directive
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966)
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The Prime Directive
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966)
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- Necessary compassion over rigid rules
- Heroic but recklessly inconsistent
- Mostly justified by impossible situations
- A betrayal of Starfleet's core ethics