Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-130.204.55.8-20140708112340/@comment-19765459-20140711015709

There doesn't need to be a reason. From what we have seen of hunters, they are largely sociopaths who take advantage of the supernatural as an excuse to torture and murder people while claiming they are doing it for a "good" cause. By dehumanizing those they hunt, they can tell themselves that what they do is not "murder". They have also been shown to be willing to harm ordinary people as well. For example, the Argent's abducted and tortured the high school principal, purely to create an opening for Gerard to takeover the job. The principal didn't even know anything about the supernatural!

The hunters have a Medieval feudal mindset, where they are the warrior elite and everyone else is a peasant.