Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130821214539/@comment-6078851-20130828004420

with the exception of tyranids and the tau, everyone else wants dominion over the others or the outright extinction of the others. tyranids will, probably, end up wiping out everyone but not from a self deluded notion about destiny, or a self important sense of superiority, or from hatred, or malice, or (very human) spite, but from simple biological instincts. this is how i view 'survival of the fittest' and a race's right to survive, not "our guns/ beliefs/ morals/ gods are better so we have a destiny to rule all".

and looking through the imperium's history, as well as their present, is exactly why i don't pity, but scorn them. by all means fight tooth and nail for the survival of your species, but i believe when a race commits atrocities on itself, repeatedly throughout millenia (usually from petty, deluded and flat-out insane idea's), their right to survive has been forfeighted. the tyranids don't consiously commit atrocities, they simply feed: you don't think you're commiting an atrocity when you eat your cornflakes in the morning, do you? 'cause that's all we are to them - breakfast ;)

i didn't mention chaos because it isn't a distinct race as such, more of a by-product of sentience and if the only races left were orks, tyanids, tau or necrons then chaos wouldn't be an issue as these races don't contribute to the warp, at least not in any significant way.