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There are no rules requiring minds to value life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. An alien will have, in all probability, Alien values. They might be Paperclip maximizers, they might only value non-sentient life, they might spend all their time building prime number heaps of rocks.
Related tags: Complexity of Value, Orthogonality Thesis, Mind design space, Paperclip Maximizer, Ethics & Morality