Net Future Usefulness theory. This is the opposite of the Dark Forest/Colonialism/Competition/Extractive Economics mindsets that humans have been conditioned with.

I'll try to summarize. Basically, anything that persists (quantum particles to whole species) does so because it is more useful to its own place or offspring than it consumes in resources. I submit that any species who manages to develop interstellar travel or antigravity (see moniker) will be intelligent enough to understand that NFU is additive, not subtractive, and if there are species that don't understand the dangers of competitive dumbassery (see "Modern Monetary Theory"), they will commit technological suicide ("Toolmaker Koan") before reaching very far. "In a society based on competition, you invevitably get fewer and fewer winners and more and more losers."-Wendell Berry.

If humans can't figure this out soon, someone will invent a wormhole or doomsday device and we will disappear anyway. Ergo, we can't live as though the Dark Forest concept will protect or limit us. Life is useful because it gives Nature something it doesn't otherwise have: an ability to image(ine) the future and make choices according to that knowledge.

Keeping evil choices around (actions based on unquestioned beliefs (or anachronistic paradigms)) just because "that's the way we've always done" is just useless. Life is the anti-entropy. Moving it along is the best we can do until the universe quits working.