Contrary to what the consensus says in regards to penis carving at birth, there are massive benefits. As it turns out, there exists a meat tyrant at the end of your penis and it has a straight shot to the cortex behind your forehead and will countermand things that will make you great for the collective in pursuit of things that will cause the genes in your DNA to make more of you.
If you are going to cast your lot in with the emperium, you will have to cut off your desire to make more of you, since "you" become the borg fleet under your protection. If they die, it's like you die.
And so there's a method to the madness, most people never figure this all out. If you're going to be clergy, your family is everyone in walking distance from the church. If they die, it's like your faimily died. The penis carving system, is a fraud detection system that did the job of CRUD relational databases over internet does today.
If I'm going to bite the bullet and use the government to have all of you murdered for the benefit of those under my protection, then we should have a system to know who "We" and "They" are when shit kicks off and calling the police doesn't do anything in regards to the two-way shooting range outside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB4N4hAPcE&t=96 