Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 13, 2019, 02:33:49 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Feb 13, 2019, 02:23:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 13, 2019, 01:44:51 PM
But there's a difference between hunting people and hunting animals
To us, not to Yautja I suspect.
Greyback was willing to acknowledge Harrigan's success. I can't say I see anyone throwing a tiger a pistol or anything.
Ahem.
QuoteQuoteIf they were truly taking pleasure in inflicting pain, they would draw all their kills out. Tie them up. Cut them. Burn them. Make incisions. Sever limbs than cauterize. You get what I'm saying.
Sadistic doesn't immediately equate to torturer. We've seen quick kills, we've seen drawn out conflicts, we've seen tormenting. A kill is a kill. We've seen different levels of satisfaction around different kills. They don't take a trophy from everyone. It doesn't mean they don't enjoy each kill.
I was responding to you saying Predators taking pleasure in inflicting pain (not kills) and challenging that. If Predators did take pleasure from inflicting pain, they would most likely act differently during the hunt. Stab or shoot to maime, not to kill. Like -
just shooting from the hip here- blow Blaine's leg completely off, and listen to Blaine scream in pain as Mac tries to stop him from bleeding to death, and just revel in the screams.
Of course the Predator takes pleasure in the kill. Every sports hunter does. They're just not sadistic to inflict the most slow, long-lasting painful and agonizing death possible.
QuoteQuoteAgain, where is the honor in humans wearing camouflage, perched in trees using high powered scope rifles to take out an unsuspecting deer? Yet those humans (most) still have moral and honorable codes.
Granted, I'm not versed in the sports hunting community but do they actually make a big deal about how honourable they are? That's not something that I can say is something that is equated to sports hunters as people tie to the Yautja.
Yeah, the parent will teach their child to respect nature and respect their prey. If it's not a killshot, don't let the creature bleed out in pain. Kill it immediately. Never shoot a pregnant animal or a youngling. You see that fish, it's too young, throw it back. And so on. There's honor to them. They even see mounting the animal's head on your wall as preserving the animal's legacy.
There's a lot of websites you can find all about being honorable hunters. I don't want to link to any, because I prefer not to promote it, but they're easy to find.
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 13, 2019, 02:55:04 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Feb 13, 2019, 02:23:49 PMI like my Predators medium-rare, with a side of roasted potatoes.
I don't imagine that to be very juicy.
Well certainly not as juicy as rabbit!