Genocide in the Old Testament

[John V]

Moral standards are different, but not arbitrarily so. We hold less advanced beings to less stringent standards. Why do we hold more advanced beings to the same standard as we do for simpler beings, especially when that advanced being is purported to be the very source of morals?

Aside from the same issue regarding words like advanced (it ain't the supposedly less advanced creatures causing global warming, you know) and stringent, you have an additional problem. We hold less advanced beings to less stringent standards. They don't hold us to any standards.