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I don't particularly care for this plot.
Q is omniscient, so he already knew that our history is rife with examples of good people and bad people, brilliant and ignorant... and he comes to judge a fairly utopian future society of a unified, post-capitalism, post-religion Earth? My dude, they're doing fine.
This assumes Q was there to actually judge humanity and not begin a dialogue with Picard and the Federation. In his own omnipotent way. It's not a judgement, it's more of a test or like a training.
It's a question of how these humans justify their image of their own race. I enjoyed it, as all Q episodes it was fun.
It's easy to be a saint in paradise.
Unless the United Federation of Planets is the Warhammer 40K "Dark Age of Technology" and Q saw the rise of the Emperor, chaos and neverending war.
After all TNG took place in the 2370s? The Hours Heresy is in the 30,000s. Plenty of time for humanity to fuck everything up.
He's just poking at us, to make sure it holds under pressure.