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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Ripley''': You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see [[Starfish Aliens|them]] fucking each other over for a Goddamn percentage.
|''[[Aliens]]''}}
It's bad to exploit others. To steal, to conquer, to torture, and most often when this comes up, to kill. But what makes it especially bad? Killing because you're human. Only humans, you see, are greedy, or jealous, or kill because they revel in someone else's suffering, while a monster who eats you, well, just has to eat. It's just dinner. Or it's just conquest, or
This can also apply to assassins, who may be human, but still don't kill out of rage, greed, or insanity like all the rest of us human killers do.
At times the same kind of motive can count either way depending on how it's presented. It's better to kill for
Often a form of [[Broken Aesop]] meant to imply that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]. See also [[Ape Shall Never Kill Ape]] where the monsters are better because they ''don't'' kill even if they ''do'' have human motives.
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If it is only claimed that the humans are just as bad (rather than worse), because ''both'' the humans and nonhumans kill wantonly, that is not this trope but may fall under [[Not So Different]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* Ripley's famous quote above from ''[[Aliens]]''.
* Used in ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'', where Martin claims that he's better than a psychopath ''because'' he kills for money (while psychopaths have no reason at all). He quickly backtracks into a [[That Came Out Wrong]], of course.
* In the live-action adaption of ''[[The Jungle Book (
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** The dragon's justification in ''[[
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** In ''[[
* In ''[[
** The Race is shown to be applying plenty of double standards to humans. They consider human religious beliefs to be primitive and ridiculous, but don't try to say anything bad about their emperors, whom they revere as gods (of course, this can be said about most religious people). They claim that humans are reckless in detonating nukes to try to stop the Race invasion, after nuking Berlin and Washington for no good reason and then retaliating to humans using nukes with their own nukes.
== [[Live
* Touched on in the 2000s remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Averted in the ''[[
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Professor's opening monologue on the [[
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