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It may be true that the Borg are arguably more successful, but to a fault. Their success is contingent upon their ability to dominate, and they've lost to multiple species as a direct result of their lack of willingness to preserve large-scale autonomy and imagination. The Federation was able to defeat them with guile; A variety of species with slipstream technology were able to evade the Borg; Species 8472 were able to defeat them with sheer evolutionary and technological superiority; and finally, the Caeliar rendered the Borg virtually extinct and they were in some respects the functional equivalent of an ultra-advanced quasi-pacifist version of the Borg.
Fictional characters indeed but the debate is nonsensical on another level - the Borg are the very antithesis of humane. The Borg as created by the writers have no compassion, they have no sympathy, they have no free will, they assimilate cultures against their will. They aren't even fully organic (human or otherwise) but are part machine.
This is like arguing that your PC is humane because it is efficient.
I think everyone fears losing their individual-ness as we just dont want to think we are the same as someone else. This is strange, because we often look for someone like us in a partner, someone who 'understands' us. Perhaps this is mirroring a two sides of humanity one which needs to be unique and the other which needs to be part of a group, to belong, a part of the whole.
Ultimately, it is losing control and that is what is happening to the modern world. There will soon be one small group who controls and directs and a much larger group which will be slaves or workers. The trick is to get the slaves into a controlled situation so they cannot possibly ever overthrow the small controlling group.
But then, maybe people cannot see this happening or maybe I am paranoid?
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