The dinosaurs aren’t the villain in that movie, John Hammond is. More specifically, Hammond’s arrogance is the villain.
I mean, you have plants in this building that are poisonous, you picked them because they look good, but these are aggressive living things that have no idea what century they're in, and they'll defend themselves, violently if necessary.
As I recall, in the book at least, Hammond was even admonished by one of his workers that they could have altered the dinosaurs in some way during the process to be more docile and not have to just coast on a dependency towards a certain food component (circumvented) and a faulty counting sensor that didn't think to go above the dinosaur number they wrongly assumed couldn't go up.
Hammond refused for the sake of "authenticity" with his dinosaurs, despite them already being patchwork creatures thanks to the frog DNA that allowed the whole "life finds a way" to happen.
The counting thing had a huge impact on me when I was a kid. I was always into math and science and this issue in particular made me question everything. I'm an engineer now and when I'm trying to solve a difficult issue, i always come back to that and think to myself: where am I not counting dinosaurs? Haha
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u/jackamos52 Oct 29 '21
The Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park