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And there are also plenty of animals that question whether their own role in human agrarian society is a smart move.

Hint: the animals are less intelligent for doing so.

So what? They're under water. If anything that makes it easier to alter their environment with lasting effects. In calm waters, it would be trivial to dig trenches and stack rocks, to create structures, as hunting traps or dens.

Either way, the octopus is similarly prehistoric, despite readily prehensile appendages.

Nor does a lack of hands readily explain the level of elephant intelligence, given a prehensile trunk.

Dolphins are clearly intelligent, but not smart enough to organize a colony of many thousands of permanent shelters, and share community surplus that advances a dolphin civilization that benefits those who participate.

So, probably as intelligent as nomadic pre-historic humans. I wouldn't rate that as "highly" intelligent. Just somewhat intelligent.

These are still pre-historic dolphins, since they don't seem to record history for themselves yet. If they carry oral traditions, they seem to be limited to hunting techniques, and not specific events and personalities measured across time. There is no evidence of symbolism invented by dolphins.

There's got to be some way of predicting which people will transform themselves into the shittiest assholes, and put them all in the same shitty school, so that they can all burn it to the ground together, and we only sacrifice one worthless safety school, rather than 40 or 50 valuable institutions.

This is probably unrealistic, since one person's enjoyable experience is often in direct conflict with another's misery.

Maybe it just needs to to go down so that all the noisiest, most adversarial assholes, likely to compliment each other's misery land in the same place, make the most noise, and it looks like a huge, ridiculous disaster, but through this, 99% of everyone else's time at school goes smoothly, far far away from the well-isolated, planned demolition of losers.

Is this how wars start?