So, this is the Taker vision: The world was made for Man, and Man was made to conquer and rule it. - Daniel Quinn

But, alas, a law is catching up to them. They don’t know such a law even exists, but this ignorance affords them no protection from its effects.

The law we’re looking for here is much like that with respect to civilizations. It’s not about civilizations, but it applies to civilizations in the same way that it applies to flocks of birds and herds of deer. It makes no distinction between human civilizations and beehives. It applies to all species without distinction. This is one reason why the law has remained undiscovered in your culture. According to Taker mythology, man is by definition a biological exception. Out of all the millions of species, only one is an end product.

Five severed fingers do not make a hand.