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Why did they hunt humans?

posted 11 years ago by OhCaptinMyCaptin
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A smarter way would been to work the with humans, give them land so they could breed and multiply, blood after all is a renewable resource there could have been clinics all over the country where people walk in give blood get paid, like they do now. Come to think about it a vampire communtiy would actually be pretty good for the economy, humans run the coutry during the day and the vamps at night imagine america running 24/7 even more so then it is now imagine the productivity. They only drink blood so we dont have to worry about food shortage, blood would become a hot commdity people could get out of poverty just by selling there blood. But since vampire arent real this is just rambling, but either way i enjoyed the movie 7/10 it not perfect but i really cant find anything to complain about decent movie.

[–] milo44 11 years ago

I'm just getting ready to watch the movie tonight .. I've been reading up on it .. It does make better sense if they did it that way .. Maybe someone will make a movie with that idea .. which I think is great .. they could take care of all the criminals and look after the humans at night and like you said , the humans could work first shift .. so to speak ..lol ... See ya .

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I'd like a chance t' shoot at an educated man once in my life .

[–] yaroslavc 11 years ago

Very cool but sorta B movie from Australia called Thirst actually tackles that thought about harvesting blood from humans

[–] kinsayder 10 years ago

It couldn't be an equal partnership between vampires and humans, though. As you imply when you say that the vampires would give land to the humans to breed and multiply, the vampires would always be in control and the humans would be like farm animals bred for blood and slave labour. No-one could live like that for long. The humans would rebel and you'd end up with a situation like the premise of the movie, with some humans on the run and others in blood extraction machines.

Your idea could be an interesting prequel to this movie, though. Be sure to get a royalty when they make it.

[–] fektthis 10 years ago

Human history contains more years of humans being slaves than not. The abolishing of slavery is a fairly recent thing of only a couple hundred years in a history that spans thousand upon thousands.
To quote Perry Farrel "We'll make great pets"

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[–] AureliusBady 10 years ago

Do you willingly let (hundreds of) mosquitoes bite you?
Humans would stay put only for as much time as they need to rebel and try to exterminate the vampires

[–] oxblood 10 years ago

Because that would be a boring movie

[–] destroyerwod 10 years ago

Well slaves are still present at some places in the world, there call islam women... :/

Now if i had to just give my blood every 2-3 days to get paid and live by that, hell i would anytime ... lol

Alice is the worst character of all time, she need to die in the last movie. Chris/Jill are RE !!!

[–] Kisser_dk 9 years ago

You can't donate blood that often. A male can donate 500 ml every third month, women every fourth. I don't think that would be enough to sustain a vampire population.

[–] ftremblay379 9 years ago

Well also one thing I didn't get is that ok, in 2009 some humans become vampires, but instead of thinking about long-term survival like they should, they turn most of the human population to vampires. Obviously they will encounter a shortage of blood at some point.

And if you really want to harvest humans, instead of wasting time trying to find a blood substitute, why not use an artificial insemination technique that we ALREADY have? I mean in the end, they were using humans like cattle. We breed cows, why not breed humans?

It seemed to me that the vampires in this movie weren't so smart.

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[–] guardian_owl 9 years ago

It's a metaphor for how we burn through fossil fuels (among other bits of human short-sightedness). In the 50's gas was cheap so people burned through it with abandon. Then in the 70's there were oil embargoes by OPEC of the United States which causes supply issues and price spikes. It is only when panic begins to set in do we try to course correct. That has resulted in better fuel efficiency standards in cars, more drilling at home, and the search for other forms of energy to power automobiles. Thankfully those embargoes ended and they had time to make changes.

But what if the embargoes hadn't ended? What if they had to find an alternative fuel source before we ran out of our existing supply? By the time there was an inkling of a problem with the blood supply, it would be too late to breed. In Cows, from insemination to adulthood is 2 years. Humans mature so slowly that it would be many, many years before you could harvest any blood from them.

Even if they had started a breeding program as soon as the plague started (which isn't realistic since it would have taken many years for the population balance to shift), only 10 years have passed so you'd have 9-year-old's that if you took much blood from them it would stunt their development or possibly kill them.

[–] dansubs-415-765148 9 years ago

It might have been smarter to farm the humans for blood, but humanities history is littered with animals we hunted to extinction and right now we are doing it with fish stocks around the world. Turns out as a species we aren't that smart. The premise of being greedy and over farming humans is entirely plausible in my opinion.

[–] HAL9000 (935) 4 years ago

for the same resons, mankind empties the oceans of fish. stupidity and greed. its a metaphor