User blog comment:Markurion/Extended Cut or Prolonged torture?/@comment-4950606-20120406181240/@comment-1221773-20120407231027

True, but this cycle's organics had the same fears, and those fears could always re-insinuate themselves into their mindset. Attitudes change with time. It could be that future generations are doomed to fall into the same pattern of creating something that hates them.

And seeing how the Catalyst has been around for at least a billion years and witnessed the rise and fall of so many civilizations, I think it can speak with some authority on the subject.