My knee jerk reaction based on reading this post and briefly trying to remember movies I haven't seen in years is: don't the xenomorphs have to kill humans to reproduce, and in a way CW SV
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that is deliberately designed to evoke unwanted pregnancy from sexual violence in a way that is now a threat to cis men
Unlike almost literally any actual species I would say that they don't have a right to exist.
This also doesn't feel like a universe with free flowing information, and I don't think Ripley and her employer staying away from the planet is a guarantee that others will not fall prey to it later.
this doesn't affect your point (which I think is a good one) but although they reproduce parasitically the host doesn't have to be human. Alien (1979) shows this with the engineer pilot skeleton
I think that minimizing the amount of death required for a lifeform to exist is a good choice and not one really available to xenomorphs, who, due to their ecological niche, are required to kill sapient individuals to propagate their species and in a way which, again (refer to spoiler tag above).
They're not normal predator animals, they're fictional monsters designed to be as violating and horrible as possible
I view it more as neoliberal ideology, where in the original it felt more clear that the violence was a product of the system and living under capitalism and working for corporations, Aliens centers the Xenomorphs as the primary source of evil that needs to be exterminated. It's been a minute since I've seen them, so I could be way off base. Still, I think this represents a big ideological shift.
My knee jerk reaction based on reading this post and briefly trying to remember movies I haven't seen in years is: don't the xenomorphs have to kill humans to reproduce, and in a way CW SV
spoiler
that is deliberately designed to evoke unwanted pregnancy from sexual violence in a way that is now a threat to cis men
Unlike almost literally any actual species I would say that they don't have a right to exist.
This also doesn't feel like a universe with free flowing information, and I don't think Ripley and her employer staying away from the planet is a guarantee that others will not fall prey to it later.
this doesn't affect your point (which I think is a good one) but although they reproduce parasitically the host doesn't have to be human. Alien (1979) shows this with the engineer pilot skeleton
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I think that minimizing the amount of death required for a lifeform to exist is a good choice and not one really available to xenomorphs, who, due to their ecological niche, are required to kill sapient individuals to propagate their species and in a way which, again (refer to spoiler tag above).
They're not normal predator animals, they're fictional monsters designed to be as violating and horrible as possible
I view it more as neoliberal ideology, where in the original it felt more clear that the violence was a product of the system and living under capitalism and working for corporations, Aliens centers the Xenomorphs as the primary source of evil that needs to be exterminated. It's been a minute since I've seen them, so I could be way off base. Still, I think this represents a big ideological shift.
humanity already has a right to decide because rights come at the barrel of a gun, and humanity has allllllll the guns