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[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] Why do dolphins allow themselves to be hunted and slaughtered on Earth?

According to the book, dolphins are a more advanced race than humans. However humans still have had a long running track record of hunting and slaughtering them for food. Why don't dolphins prevent this or retaliate?
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> On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.  

To dolphins, life's too short to worry about stuff like some random human swooping down and grabbing you in a net.  There's frolicking to be had and water to be swum through, and since most dolphins will never see a human in their lives, much less be hunted by one, it seems rather pointless and pessimistic to be constantly on the lookout for a human out to eat them, much less organize some sort of collective prevention or retaliation strategy.  That's what a human would do.  Dolphins prefer to focus their attention on stuff that actually matters.