Was Predator "bad"?

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Some people dislike hunters and have even criticized them for killing the stronger and letting the weaker live, but is that really a "bad" thing? In the movies Predator 1&2, and AVP 1&2, the alien known as "Predator" somewhat made an extreme version of this concept of a hunter. Predator would brutally kill anything which challenged it, but didn't attack the helpless, leaving unarmed women and children alone and such like that.

So, is it so horrible for people to hunt "for sport" as some call it, and kill only the creatures which can defend themselves and potentially also kill the hunter, or is it better to systematically butcher creatures in a slaughterhouse where it is relatively safe for the people performing the killing? Or is killing completely evil?

Hardly remember the predator movies, there was a woman surviving one in the first movie, but don't remember why, the reason they would not kill children and women, if that is the case, would be because of the audience acceptance or reaction towards scenes like that, I don't see any other reason than the controversy of scenes of bloody deaths of children, even if only implied I presume, among the audience and in the media at the time. I believe it would more believable predators killing anything standing in their way, and that probably would have been the story if the movies would have been made today, I could be wrong though.

Hunting? well, in ancient times killing human beings was entertainment, nowadays it is animals, without much moral or legal consequences as with humans

About not killing the defenseless, not sure, I would speculate on #1 the challenge I suppose? no point into killing animals who are not aggresive and cannot defend themselves, #2 morals, feeling less guilty for killing an animal who is a predator itself, and more when they are predator to humans.

I find trophy hunting (or fishing) to be very wasteful and really disgusting.

Hunting and fishing for food is okay, and in my mind is far better than factory farming of animals. Unfortunately, factory farming of both animals and plants is the only way to even come close to feeding our (overpopulated) world. If everyone were to hunt, all life on the planet would be extinguished in no time.

Well I quite like the first Predator movie and the 2nd one was that bad either. Dunno about after that lol.

Hunting serves other purposes beyond just the sporting element. I haven't been hunting in a long time but it's a big part of the culture of my state and a big part of the state economy. For the most part, people tend to eat whatever they shoot besides like small game like rabbits or squirrels or whatever. Overpopulation big problem to especially with deer. Lots of people have their cars damaged or destroyed and sometimes get killed themselves. There was this disease that deer got here a few years ago called Chronic Wasting Disease and they needed to be killed.

I can see why some people wouldn't want to do it but people who do aren't bad people and I don't think it shouldn't be allowed.

There are only three good reasons for killing an animal:

1. Self defense
2. For food.
3. If the animal is a pest and its presence is damaging to property or is unsanitary.

Anything else is macho crapdoodle.

ruveyn

Hunting for sport is something I don't approve of. Organized slaughter is something I benefit from but don't like. Even though I benefit from it.

Alien was much better than Predator anyway. They had no problems with killing anything, though they did leave Jonesy the cat alone, but they didn't have that much access to it...

Hunting anything for food you will consume or give to someone who needs it is okay.

Hunting anything that will try to prey on you (or your livestock) is okay.

Hunting something purely for "sport" makes no sense unless you practice a type of "catch and release" system where you let it go unharmed after you've proven your skill in being able to take it down.

Sometimes the "sport" angle gets blurred because most sport hunting allows you to maintain a healthy animal population by killing off the excess so it doesn't suffer from overpopulation (which is cruel and ecologically harmful in the long run) and most sport hunters do preserve and consume the meat from the animals they hunt.

Another factor involved is the delight in killing something. I find that basically repulsive but it is, in many ways, a necessity in staying alive. I have no rational logic to justify either attitude and can only face it emotionally.

One is morally justified in killing something if and only if it is delicious.