The newer monster hunter games try to explain it away as functionally conservation efforts, telling you that the ones you’re killing are throwing off the local ecosystem, but it falls pretty flat when they also pit captured ‘research specimens’ against you in the arena they built explicitly for that purpose…
That’s why I don’t do any of the quests in Skyrim that kills a giant or mammoth. They’re just doing their thing, won’t mess with you if you don’t mess with them or their stuff.
This is one of the points covered several times in The Witcher series. The monsters are doing their thing, and should really only be messed with when they interfere with humans.
I don’t play monster Hunter because the drip is abysmal. I look at monster Hunter outfits and it looks like somebody lazily slaughtered a muppet and tried to make plate armor out of it.
