If you met a race of aliens, intelligent, friendly, etc., would you “turn into a Warhammer 40K Inquisitor” who considers the xenos unworthy of any moral consideration whatsoever? If not, why not?
I would certainly be willing to aim for peaceful co-existence and collaboration, unless we came into conflict for ideological reasons or plain resource scarcity. There’s only one universe to share, and only so much in the way of resources in it, even if it’s a staggering amount. The last thing we need are potential “Greedy Aliens” in the Hansonian sense.
So while I wouldn’t give the aliens zero moral value, it would be less than I’d give for another human or human-derivative intelligence, for that fact alone.
If you met a race of aliens, intelligent, friendly, etc., would you “turn into a Warhammer 40K Inquisitor” who considers the xenos unworthy of any moral consideration whatsoever? If not, why not?
I would certainly be willing to aim for peaceful co-existence and collaboration, unless we came into conflict for ideological reasons or plain resource scarcity. There’s only one universe to share, and only so much in the way of resources in it, even if it’s a staggering amount. The last thing we need are potential “Greedy Aliens” in the Hansonian sense.
So while I wouldn’t give the aliens zero moral value, it would be less than I’d give for another human or human-derivative intelligence, for that fact alone.