sitting in the car , on the ride home , looking over every aspect of the box and contents . Pouring over every page in the manual . Things just arn ' t the same . <| sep |> No , nothing notable really . The first year it just happened to be the day I decided to do it and then the next year the fact that it was an anniversary really drove me crazy . <| sep |> This sub is so sad <| sep |> No need to get upset . I was trying to help , you havent provided any hint to the level of study you are at , nor to what you have tried or what you got stuck on . I was asking questions to see where you were at in the question and in calculus overall . <| sep |> I feel like it ' s pretty well laid out though . The Federation is tolerant , except of intolerance . Yes it ' s a liberalcentric view to say that slavery represents intolerance or whatever , but they ' ve found a system that works for them and allows more humans and species to live happily than ever before coming in and saying that your Maquis viewpoint is more valid isn ' t very convincing except maybe to regretfully discover that the Maquis don ' t belong in the Federation and indeed might not belong anywhere . Many times in the course of preventing bloodshed people are forced to do uncomfortable things . Violently prioritizing your hunk of asteroid over the safety of entire civilizations has a certain libertarian appeal but just isn ' t a way to manage a civilization of trillions . They explore this more directly from the opposite side when Wesley objects to supporting a new Trail of Tears when Cardassians have found a right to take over a Native American planet . Some things are worth fighting for , but most of these things are bureaucratic border disputes with opponents who don ' t hesitate to commit genocide . Trying to pretend like the Federation isn ' t a force for good when they try and resettle you to minimize damage is disingenuous . Resisting a little is to be expected and might change the outcome but taking up arms against the only superpower who values your life is just suicide . Inasmuch as the Federation liberals get things wrong , the false equivalence trying to paint them as being as bad as the alternative really makes you wonder whether the goal is a peaceful progressive society or a warring feudalistic libertarian society where each faction fights to the death for their liberty . I think if humans have any hope of surviving in the billions , it ' s going to look a lot like the Federation . You can ' t prevent war and famine without massive technology and massive social programs pure libertarian capitalism sounds great but it runs into serious problems when someone ' s well runs dry or their back goes out because people will kill in order not to die .