The fact that he went back to help the Asian girl does show he has some redeeming qualities. So he's not totally selfish. He was so shocked by the cruelty he encountered that it sort of snapped him into some moral sense. But you have to admit, for most of the movie, he is portrayed as a kind of sexist, egotistical, brainless frat boy. A reflection of certain Americans' attitudes toward other countries and foreigners--that they're there for our taking and exploitation, which the film strongly suggests in the first half. And that image gets reflected back in a distorted, exaggerated way by the Elite Hunting Club.
And when Paxton takes vengeance in almost the exact same way as the torturers, this seems again to draw an implied parallel between him and "the bad guys." Not literally, like they're on the same level, and of course we're supposed to root for Paxton like any other character in a movie taking vengeance against an antagonist.
But many other movies, as I feel like Hostel/Hostel II does, also imply vengeance has a certain psychological toll, because it also brings up the question of what the difference is between the one who violently kills for pleasure and the one who violently kills for payback. (Of course, certain action movies, like Dirty Harry and the Death Wish series, don't do this; but usually horror implies the blurring of that psychological boundary.) Taking someone's life into your own hands--where the individual is the judge, jury, and executioner--is a terrifying prospect because it basically means you're working basically within your own standards and have given up any sense of communal justice, legal or divine. So personal vengeance is a lot different than Old Testament law (which most modern people don't follow strictly, even most Jews, let alone Christians), which follows a strict number of regulations and requires an assembly of people (not just some lone wolf striking down criminals/evildoers), or being convicted and sentenced to death in the criminal justice system, which again involves multiple people and various people putting checks and balances on each other (and even this system is very imperfect and corrupt).
Plus, movies like Hostel also bring up the hard fact that revenge doesn't necessarily fix things, make the pain go away, or make you any morally superior, all of which I think can be implied in Paxton's short reappearance, granted in a very brief way. But given the continuities with the first film, it makes sense to me.
Anyway, if you put aside your politics for a minute and look to the actual film(s), you might pick up on some of the points I'm highlighting. You of course might interpret things differently, but try to look at it more from the angle of what the actual scenes are conveying rather than the ethics of whether the death penalty is right or wrong.
"every time godzilla loses to mothra I die a little bit more"--Godzillaswrath
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