If you were a space faring species with incredibly powerful weapons would you tolerate a species of violent sapiens with nuclear weapons being able to travel the cosmos, including to your planet?
Or would you just blow up their atmosphere into outer space sending their planet’s evolution back 3 billion years?
“Or would you just blow up their atmosphere into outer space sending their planet’s evolution back 3 billion years?”
They can’t, they are stuck here and coexist with us. To destroy us is to also destroy themselves too.
And that is why they are worried about us blowing ourselves up. It will destroy them too.
If you were a space faring species
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I’m not, so there is that.