The known claim of the indifference of the tao was taken up by the English author (J Gray), Gray even used the term straw dogs, which is a keyword for the irrelevance of humans (straw dogs are puppets to be burned, the term entails none of the idiocies of animal rights self styled theorists) The dao is many, many, many thousdands if not hundreds of thousands of characters, though a vast majority, for what that counts, of my Chinese students claim to have understood all of it very quickly