Ghatanathoah comments on Jews and Nazis: a version of dust specks vs torture - Less Wrong
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I think I might believe that such conflicts are intractable. The reason that society generally doesn't flat-out kill people with totally alien values is that such people are rare-to-nonexistant. Humans who are incurably sociopathic could be regarded as creatures with alien values, providing their sociopathy is egosyntonic. We do often permanently lock up or execute such people.
You might be right, if you define "value" as "a terminal goal that a consequentialist creature has" and believe most animals do not have enough brainpower to be consequentialists. If this is the case I think that animal cruelty laws are an probably an expression of the human value that creatures not be in pain