And when you come to a new life form, the differences may be literally incomprehensible. The values and ethics of this new form of life may be utterly different.” “You mean it may not believe in the sanctity of life, or ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ ” Barnes said, still impatient. “No,” Norman said. “I mean that this creature may not be able to be killed, and so it may have no concept of killing in the first place.”
