Quote from: keylight-di on Mar 09, 2010, 07:32:17 AM
Thinking in this way, you give one species a right to a fair assessment, but refuse the same to another species.
Not at all. They're given the assessment they invite in the movies.
The Aliens don't invite a comparison to humans. Social insects, maybe, but there's more than enough material in the movie to show they clearly aren't bound by anything resembling
human thought processes.
Predators, on the other hand, do invite such a comparison.
QuoteYou can't use the same, rigid standards to every community and every culture.
Which is why we're not doing that to the Predators. We're looking at one species that clearly displays traits of various
human behaviours and compiling an image of them based off of that.
QuoteThis is an extreme anthropomorphism, self-centeredness.
Except totally not, because it's invited by the source material.
QuoteWhy we should study other cultures, if there are one, the only rigid standards? 
We shouldn't, were that the case.
But it clearly isn't.
We aren't keying Predators to one rigid human structure, we're creating a new structure for them out of various human elements - Elements that they were transparently based on in the first place.
QuoteBecause sadism it's deviation .
Not by definition, no - It's only a deviation if it isn't the norm. Sadism can be the norm, and still be sadism.
QuoteThe whole idea of Xenos was a reflection of our, human fears and obsessions.
But because of that they
aren't human by any means. They're a
perversion of people, maybe - Which means we could only seek to understand them by essentially going by the
opposite of us.
QuoteBecause they come from us.
And anything else large enough to fit a tube down.
QuoteAnd in this sense they are just human like you and me.
Not really, no.
