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Hypocrisy is an interesting synonym for self-preservation.

It's hardly self-preservation. More like a first world problem/solution: my transport structures are not hard enough to withstand squid attacks - we clearly need to kill the squids.

That is exactly self-preservation. At least for those on the transport structure.

If you're already on that ship, sure. As a planned action... you can be somewhere else instead.

> first world problem/solution

Surely the opposite.

Your typical Neanderthal isn't going to do an ecological impact statement before clubbing the snakes to death.

What kind of moronic creature kills off threats?

> we start killing them off.

or else they will kill us?

Uh, what? If they start sinking ships, we should start killing them off.

We would first try to frighten them off.