I always thought the point of he story was to call attention to that fact and plead for empathy and compassion.

I think there's an inevitability to his eventual hatching of superpowers. Whether or not he's good, bad, or indifferent to people, all he has to do is wait it out —til they're all dead — and he hatches into super universe monster. Pretty sweet.

Yeah, but then you hatch into a megabeing that can make and destroy universes. Swings and roundabouts.