THE PREY OFFICALLY TRAILER RELEASED!!!

#483

survival of the fittest, self-reliance, using others as a means to an end etc is all sith talk but yeah NANOMACHINES SON and DO YOU SEE ANY BORDERS FROM UP HERE and fucking thanos & Joker are all extreme utilitarian moral arguments.

what @Fire is saying is predators somehow have a completely different set of established morals and no concept of difference between self-defense, hunting, and murder.
in which case their ability to reason as a sentient species must be incredibly impaired.
The ability to reason to begin with is what seperates people from animals.

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#484

We are the dominant & apex life on this planet, if anything else took this in our place they would treat us the same. It is simply nature.

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#485

That does sound interesting.

#486

Except for the fact they donā€™t attack the unarmed, sickly, children or pregnant women and anyone who does is either exiled or hunted down by Enforcers. Hell thereā€™s even examples of Predators saving humans from threats like in Requiem when Wolf saves the mother & daughter from a guy with a gun or in the comics when a Predator kills a man who is beating up his son.

Not to mention both Wolf & Scarface have saved the entire Earth.

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#487

That sounds reasonable. I have this notion of harmony in nature. Perhaps itā€™s ignorant.

#488

Do they not attack because its something mirroring sympathy or because itā€™s not an honorable thing to do? Doing the right thing for wrong reasonsā€¦

#489

Iā€™m not excusing animal cruelty, its vile. I have a dog for fuck sake, heā€™s like a son to me. Iā€™d probably cave someoneā€™s skull in if they hurt him. But I wonā€™t sit here and act like Humans are bad just because we feast upon other creatures in mass amounts; if anything else had evolved in our place they would be doing the exact same. Plus like, ā€œevilā€ exists in nature as is: have you SEEN Dolphins? Theyā€™re absolute monsters, and theyā€™re roughly as smart as us so they KNOW what they are doing. Dolphins are evil creatures and the worst part is they are intelligent enough to revel in it. A Lion does not take joy in killing & eating, it does it because it has to survive. Dolphins will murder & rape just for fun.

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#490

Those are good points.

So weā€™re not alone. Dolphins know what it like to have to do necessary evil. I think itā€™s been said that cats can be cruel to and just kill for sport/fun.

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#491

Like are we talking zerg or protoss here.

Consider xenomorphs. Looking at aliens we know the Queen is capable of reason. Ripley negotiates with it when sheā€™s in the hive, it doesnā€™t want its eggs harmed unneccessarily and so on.
They arenā€™t animals.
unfortunately they are bioweapons so one is naturally driven to exterminate the other to reproduce.

Predators are doing it as a passtime. Its a vacation. They live to fly around killing other sentient armed things for fun? They arenā€™t here to invade the planet for resources either.

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#492

Where the hell is Kass, lol? I hope sheā€™s ok

#493

if they have an innate instinct to fly across the galaxy to stab someone in the back then they are animals driven to kill things on a base level.

But its not that and its not even for any kind of resource they are making decorations unless we count collecting autism.

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#494

When a lifeform reaches a certain level of intelligence, the concepts of ā€œGood & Evilā€ tend to spark in their minds. For all of our faults we are a young species, we have much to learn. But I have seen greatness in us, the capacity for good matches and outweighs our capacity for evil. We must simply believe in the good of ourselves & those around us & punish those who would seek to do evil.

We have created great works of art, we have reached out to the stars & stepped upon the moon. We are the greatest life on the planet, and we shouldnā€™t be ashamed of this.

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#495

Yautja is a species of sentient crabs that have evolved. Ape evolution + plot armor > crab evolution.

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#496

crab brain would explain how they missed the part where they develop any concept of suffering.

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#497

They collect shells like hermit crabs are attracted to shiny things, maybe you are onto something xd

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#498

I do agree that we are more on the side of good, but is it because thatā€™s a more efficient option? Wars an dictators donā€™t last. Democratic governments are a way to go, which are more good. Itā€™s like a default setting

#499

Except they do understand suffering, and the Honor Code demands they lessen it. Kills should be swift & painless as possible. Its why the Plasmacaster one shots everybody in the first movie. Its why City makes very precise & swift melee kills. It is the Bad Bloods like the Super Predators who engage in torture methods.

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#500

THEN THEY PARADE ALL THEIR CRAB SHELLS AROUND AND DISPLAY THE NICEST SHELLS TO THEIR MATES

PREDATORS = CRABS CONFIRMED

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#501

I suppose saying that yautja are evil may be a stretch, but as an intelligent species, i canā€™t let them of with unaware. I donā€™t know what in between.

#502

none of this is onscreen. we just get them chokeholding people and gutting them so

Star Wars EU.

I dont think the director even said anything about badbloodisms and comics in Predators.

Are bear traps or wounding someone as bait and killing whoever comes a no-go but skewering someone with a spear and pinning them to a wall fine?