>That doesn't sound healthy at all because it represents an unneccessarily huge disruption It's no different than you or I dying, just on a much bigger scale.

>That doesn't sound healthy at all because it represents an unneccessarily huge disruption It's no different than you or I dying, just on a much bigger scale. It's a huge disruption, sure, but that's sort of the point. Civilizations come and go, as do the people in them. There are just too many variables for things to be able to persist in a stable state in perpetuity.