What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.
Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.