Read a sci-fi short once where some advanced civilizations would automatically attack any other such they encountered because the other was completely inscrutable, unpredictable and as such posed an unacceptable existential threat. No time to study them. You snooze, you lose. Instantaeous annihilation for just revealing your presence. Totally creeped me out.
See Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Deaths End.
What you relate is the Dark Forest Theory. If you make noise in the forest, predators will hear and come for a meal.
It this story the predators do not actually come to the meal but being cautions lest other predators hear them, send a seed which grows to encompass the entire solar system and converts it into a 2-dimensional object. Problem solved. Predator remain hidden.
“Of all the gin joints in the universe....bar fight”
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