love a bit of Solzhenitsyn

do you think that if aliens could observe us, they would attribute value judgments to our actions, or would they just be like , ah yes, crazy humans. how much do we attribute to a moral code because we are conscious.

i wonder this myself, like if i saw a jeff dahlmer monkey who, would i think he was evil? probably. if he was serial raping though, i would probably think, well yeah, consent isn't a thing in the animal kingdom