They go into talking about whether it’s their place to interfere with cosmic fate. Picard also talks about how the prime directive is meant to protect them from letting feelings interfere. He asks if they should interfere if a planet was suffering from famine. Pulaski says definitely. He then asks if a planet was engaged in a terrible war, and Pulaski hesitates. So what? Those situations are different. She’s the one who earlier argued that they need to consider exceptions.