I will. Thanks for the recommend.

I actually had some follow up thoughts on your prompt, because I do think it's possible to act as a guardian for beings that are incapable of making certain types of decisions.

So, let's say there were something totally beyond our comprehension that was going to wipe out a major city imminently. If the aliens scooped the city up and set it down somewhere else, there's a reasonable argument that they were acting in defense of others.

The standard libertarian answer to that scenario is that the aliens would be liable for any property damage they caused, but I haven't thought it through from a Hoppean standpoint.

There's a standard I've heard applied to parenthood that's something like "I need to be the parent my kids would choose if they were able to choose." I believe something like that could be applied to our relationship with animals and could be applied to a potential relationship with more advanced aliens.