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This kind of situation is usually called "conflict of interest". I think using "value differences" is confusing terminology, at least to me it suggests some more fundamental difference such as sacredness vs avoiding harm.
Ah, that makes sense. (I was wondering why nyan_sandwich's comment was being upvoted so much when I already mentioned selfish values in the OP.) To be clear, I'm using "value differences" to mean both selfish-but-symmetric values and "more fundamental difference such as sacredness vs avoiding harm". (ETA: It makes sense to me because I tend to think of values in terms of utility functions that take world states as inputs.) I guess we could argue about which kind of difference is more important but that doesn't seem relevant to the point I wanted to make.
It seems like a relevant distinction in the FAI/CEV theory context, and indirectly relevant in the gender conflicts question. That is, it isn't first-order relevant in the latter case, but seems likely to become so in a thread that is attempting to go meta. Like, say, this one.