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[Predator] What belief system do the Predators have and why must they hunt?
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The Predators seem to experience an arrogant sort of satisfaction at exerting the ultimate domination other other lifeforms: depriving them of their lives and then desecrating their corpses as trophies.

The films show that the Predators have no physical need for their quarry.   They don't need the beings they hunt for food or clothing or medical resources.   They do it entirely because they wish to do so.

The films seem to go out of their way to make it clear that the Predators are not looking for a genuine challenge, just a trophy.   They make themselves invisible.  They use overpowering weapons.   One gets the impression they would be perfectly happy if someone tied up their quarry with a gun pointed at it that they could activate by remote control while sitting in a lodge sipping their species' equivalent of martinis.

They seem to have the same sense of smug entitlement as that dentist who killed the lion a few years ago and seemed to consider the national backlash to be presumptuous or uppity.

1. Based upon the evidence, the belief system they actually live out likely involves a strong sense of inherent hierarchy, with some species born to a greater degree of rights and worth than are other species.   They may simply believe their species is the only genuinely sapient species, or they may believe their species is the superior species and the sapience of any other species doesn't really matter.
2. They probably pay lip service to the idea of competition but actually believe that all that matters is winning by any means necessary and probably pay lip service to the idea of *being good* but actually believe that all that matters is *looking good* (hence the love of trophies).
3. There is a good chance that their planetary philosophy is structurally feudalistic, with a de facto plutonomy or aristocracy that is wealthy enough to devote itself to a hobby of killing other lifeforms.   The love of trophies combined with a drive towards a hunting that provides nothing of value *except* trophies suggests that they probably focus more on rivalries and besting one another than they do on cooperation.

It's possible that they have a religion which promotes all of the above, but based upon the apparent emphasis on *looking good* instead of *being good* and on winning by any means necessary while somehow appearing to be undergoing a challenge or competition, it is far more likely that they have a religion which claims that believers or members can be forgiven for anything, even the most egregious misbehavior, so long as they remain believers or members.