Intervention -- General

[A Moment In Subtext]

Doctor Who
Intervention
By. A Moment In Subtext

What makes you so much better than us, Doctor?
We're doing the same things, you know. Watching them, guiding them, helping them advance. We're all pushing them toward the futures we want them to have. We only want them to evolve to suit us.
Do you think that your goals are any nobler than ours? You, with your devine intervention and your messiah complex. You aren't trying to interfere, you just want to help them. Feed their potential. You aren't getting anything out of it, it isn't selfish, it isn't ammoral. It isn't a violation.
But you've always been with them, haven't you? Watching them, waiting with them since the day they crawled out of the slime. And you hold them in your precious, ever-changing hands, and you mold them like clay. You stop everyone else from interfering with your pets. You give them a nudge when they need it, hold them back if you think they're going too fast. You save them time after time because you love them so very, very much.
They're a great big toy to you though, aren't they? After all these years, you play with them for a while, then you set them aside. But, of course, they're your favorite, so if anyone else wants to play they need your permission, and you almost never give it. They're made to trust you, to rely on you, to listen to you and only you even when they don't know you're there. They're unique, they survive (because you make them), you shape them like putty and they belong to you. Your own tailor-made civilization.
So what makes your brand of manipulation any different than ours, again?