Quote from: Yutani on Nov 21, 2009, 03:06:51 PM
Challenge, sport , honour ,Who cares? The pred has a "code of conduct" during the hunting. No doubt.
1-The Pred only kill armed humans.
2-In the final figth with Duch, he droped all his weapons and electronic gadgets.
3-Even armed humans are "forgiven" if they are pregnat.
Dutch wasn't armed
at all during the last fight, yet the Predator was still pretty keen on killing him. Why would they have a rule about that? "If it isn't armed, you can still kill it but you can only use your wristblades"? There's no logical reason behind it, unlike the pregnancy rule which many human hunters use as a means to encourage a reasonably healthy prey population. And why didn't it go after Anna with its wristblades? She would still have qualified, if there was a rule on the subject.
It's because there wouldn't have been any sport in it. She couldn't have hurt it at all, Dutch is about as strong as any human can be (not to mention that he'd caused it some pain earlier) so he presented an entertaining challenge. But the shoulder cannon and cloak weren't necessary - with no weapons, Dutch didn't stand a chance of killing or escaping from the Predator, so it might as well make the kill in the most visceral, enjoyable and drawn-out way possible.
It doesn't correlate with any kind of moral code either, because it certainly didn't need wristblades to make the kill.