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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 whatever—not like those nasty humans.
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{{noreallife|at least, not until we've made contact with an entirely pacifistic extraterrestrial race.}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* Ripley's famous quote above from ''[[Aliens]]''.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Touched on in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Averted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "A Christmas Carol". Kazran states that he wanted to see a fish, not kill one. The Doctor points out that {{spoiler|the shark}} was trying to eat Kazran, getting the response, "He was ''hungry.''"
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode, "A Taste of Armageddon," this trope is the rationale for the insane computer war two worlds are fighting. To oppose that, Kirk has to tell them that they of course are capable of self-control like any rational being.
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