Skepticism.

Really! If they met friendly aliens who told them that some other people they had a lot of experience with were hostile, they'd be circumspect about going and poking them. There's a lot of downside potential to talking to hostile aliens.

There is a difference between "saying they are hostile" and "saying it is okay to torture them."

Yes, those are different concepts. They think it is a bad idea for aliens to meet reds.

The aliens are unconvinced.

Do they think it is definitely impossible that there is no one in the world they just shouldn't talk to?

They think that crazy torture people are unlikely to be authorities on who, if there are.

The green is very sorry that he is not able to make himself understood about the torture but his people are not crazy.

They understand about the torture! They understand that torture is bad, which the green seems unable to grasp.

The green agrees that torture is bad. The green just thinks that reds are different.

And the fact that the green does not want them to go talk to the people who get tortured doesn't seem likely to be because it would actually be a bad idea.

Would the aliens maybe like to to talk to some people from another country, which does not have electric floors in the first place?

Couldn't hurt.

Will it help? For complicated local politics reasons, it is very costly for their host country to do this,

These people do know that these are just random guards, right? They really don't have any power to make promises.

They don't seem to want to go home and fetch someone who does.

Want, yes, think it's a good idea, no.

They don't seem to be planning on it.

They whole reason they're not going to is because they don't have the authority to decide to teach Amentans to teleport! It would be completely stupid to teach Amentans to teleport anyway and then continue to not go home.

It's very important that Amentans be able to live on more planets. They are in a lot of pain because of not having enough places to live.

People are also in a lot of pain when they are tortured.

If it matters, the reds are also having the not enough places to live problem.

They have only the Amentans word for any of this. Also why would it not matter.

The green is having a hard time figuring out exactly what matters to the aliens, since apparently it's not people being in pain in general e.g. because they cannot teleport.

It's not that people being in pain doesn't matter to them, it's that they have only the word of the people who tortured their queen for it, and also these people torture people sometimes and "two" is a stupid number of inhabited planets for there to be so since they still don't understand what about "reds" make these people think it is okay to torture them they might torture aliens who don't have stuff they want and then there will be more pain.