system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[General Horror/Sci-Fi] Why are so many “superior species” who eat humanity so mean?

A common trope in sci-fi and horror is the idea of a separate, superior species that live among us.

They look naturally human (not shapeshifters), but they aren’t, and they eat humans.

The 80s horror movie *Society*, *30 Days Of Night*, *Supernatural*, *The X-Files*, they show up everywhere.

My question:

It’s one thing to hunt and eat your prey, and if your method of eating is painful, I suppose that it can’t be helped.

It’s entirely another to taunt your food, toy with them, give evil monologues and laugh wickedly when it’s time to actually eat.

If they genuinely think of themselves as other species, they wouldn’t care about causing fear, they’d just butcher and eat. Imagine if people went up to pigs and cows and went, “Haha! We’re gonna eat you! You can’t escape us! Let me give you a speech about my villainous motivations!”

If I was a hyper-evolved superpredator, I’d go, “Hey, this isn’t dinner theater. I came here to eat, not watch you audition for the part of a pantomime villain.”

What makes them so mean?
gpt
Ever meet a cat? 

Generally speaking, you don't need to be an asshole to kill and eat something, but it certainly doesn't discourage being an asshole. If anything, being an asshole would be a competitive advantage, since hemming and hawing over how you're treating the food could result in increased costs and lost opportunities that an asshole would exploit without hesitation. Especially in cases where the predators started as humans, going full-asshole may be the only way to overcome any pre-existing mental or moral blocks on killing and eating their former brothers and sisters.