It would cause so much social dishevel that a social animal like us wouldn ' t get anywhere . We make rules and endow others to capture people who cause social dishevel . No trust no cooperation . Then you have no room for progress . Why would a species capable of making tech that can jump from solar system to solar system not just program and grow a farm animaltel 00000 x tastier than us , and wants to be eaten . It is a submissive voreaphile . Intelligent life really thinks hey once I have the ability of gods through my tech , its time to just ignore my potential and just become an interplanetary terrorist . It wouldn ' t dawn on them that this is a big waste of time and they could go zip over to a cooler place and watch stars explode or something ? Why are in essence a mortal and pitiful thing being compare to a god race ? The amount of potential between the two should be so great that its meaningless to use the same scales to judge .