Representing the very notion of extinction is not a sign that things have gone well. And because insult so often seems to accompany injury, maybe it's no surprise that the dodo suffers the additional distinction of being, well, stupid.
As if it chose poorly or lacked some critical bit of common sense... were somehow at fault for becoming defunct. As if it were bad at existing, the way some people are bad at sports.
It all seems weird and cruel. I mean, if you were watching Earth from a distance, watching dodos fossilize while people made jokes and spread rumors about them, you might walk away with an unfavorable impression of those people.
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