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Their society is actually quite peaceful and polite.
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I love this idea so much. The Predators we see in movies are literally trophy hunters, and maybe their home society views them the same way the majority of humans view human trophy hunters.
Think about how much infrastructure and support it would take to bring a civilization up to the level of "interstellar exploration."
It takes an UNGODLY amount of logistics and technologies and resources moving around and compiling and colliding with other technologies, just to make [ONE SINGLE TECHNOLOGICAL MACHINE], and it takes all of that times a thousand to make a spaceship. Now lets talk about the people who work in each of those industries, the people who drive the boats or trains to get the stuff to the place. The people who manage those machines that drive to the place, the people who manage the factory that makes the fuel that powers the machine that drives the stuff to the place, and the countless people who keep the floors clean in those factories, and so on.
I scream at the screen (internally) every time I see some really stereotyped "space species" being portrayed as homogeneous and identical in their values and goals, particularly if it's some kind of "honorbound violent tribal" species. I appreciate the work that went into overhauling the Klingons a little. I love how Space Orks are explained. But there's been some other really goofball aliens that remind me that our species is kinda... you know, racist. (1-dimensional perspectives of different cultures.)
People screaming about "DEI" remind me of this all the time. We simply do not progress without a vast, diverse population who have all degrees of values and motivations.
Robot Chicken covers this somewhat:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=91aifLfJHAs