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How would malevolent aliens behave? :-P
"Western world" is small portion of mankind and, in this scenario, all mankind counts. I cannot see even one Western person out of hundred remember Dalai Lama when facing death and for the rest of the world, the few who heard about him (excepting Tibetan Buddhists) would not appreciate his morality in the slightest.
My vote goes to the Pope - Roman Catholics are the largest religous group worldwide. The result of your gedankenexperiment is fully Catholic world and Crusade decared against the alien scum.
It's extrapolated volition that matters, not current volition. If the Pope had the same beliefs about facts that we do, his most important difference with most of us might well be something like old age.