It is odd that, though no one who has never studied chess would dream he could beat a Grand Master, so many strict amateurs with little or no scienti… - Isaac Asimov

Granted! Yet no trader since has been captured. No trade ship but has had the speed to escape at choice. No trade ship but has had a screen that could take all the beating a light cruiser could give it, should it choose to fight. And no trader but has fought to death when occasion warranted. Traders have been traced as the leaders and instigators of the guerrilla warfare on occupied planets and of the flying raids in occupied space.

«Sei tu dalla parte del torto, John, quando parli di diritti "inalienabili". Quello che tu chiami un "diritto" è meramente un privilegio, generalmente accettato. Ciò che la società accetta, quello è diritto; il resto non conta.»

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.