If someone concludes that it’s fine for them to eat cows because cows never invented computers, then there’s not really much of an argument against aliens turning us into meat slurry because they have the 4-chambered quantum brains needed to invent hyperdrive and we don’t, is there?
There’s a fun computer puzzle game (Turing complete) where the premise is that an alien is testing if you can build a computer from simulated components. If you can’t, it means you’re ok to eat.
I always felt like the person who made that was vegan lol.
I think it’s all common root stuff though, a might makes right framework of assessing the world.
Oh yeah, I played that game. It rules
I wonder if Rendezvous With Rama was kind of hinting at that too.