"The idea is taking into account the way that paying Zon Kuthons creates Zon Kuthons, in a way that's extremely suspicious about any clever story where they just happened to be lying around one day, to the point where it just starts to look like 'deontology'.  You don't want the aliens wondering if the right clever story might fool the complicated reasoning you'll be doing about them.  You want them correctly estimating that your reasoning looks pretty simple and can be summarized as 'die in a fire'."

(As is a much, much, much stronger curse in a world where those people don't get suspended.)

"The idea is taking into account the way that paying Zon Kuthons creates Zon Kuthons, in a way that's extremely suspicious about any clever story where they just happened to be lying around one day, to the point where it just starts to look like 'deontology'.  You don't want the aliens wondering if the right clever story might fool the complicated reasoning you'll be doing about them.  You want them correctly estimating that your reasoning looks pretty simple and can be summarized as 'die in a fire'."

(As is a much, much, much stronger curse in a world where the burned dead don't get suspended.)

"The idea is taking into account the way that paying Zon-Kuthons creates Zon-Kuthons, in a way that's extremely suspicious about any clever story where some Zon-Kuthons just happened to be lying around one day, to the point where it starts to look like 'deontology'.  You don't want the aliens wondering if the right clever story might fool the complicated reasoning you'll be doing about them.  You want them correctly estimating that your reasoning looks pretty simple and can be summarized as 'die in a fire'."

(As is a much, much, much stronger curse in a world where the burned dead don't get suspended.)