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To be fair Imperium is trying to exterminate them from the start, so it's not really surprising they don't hold the human lives in high esteem. It's also the same about all other xenos, though 40k Imperium is surprisingly more tolerant than 30K one, some books and stories placed after Great Rift even have xenos casually living with humans on Imperial planets and no permanent race war ensuing.
If I remember right, this is exactly how one of the Wars for Armageddon started (maybe the first one?). The Eldar lured an Ork WAAGH to Armageddon to avoid a craftworld from being invaded instead. It's one of the most vital planets in the Imperium, since it manufactures large numbers of Leman Russ tanks, Chimera APCs, titans, and is one of the few places that can build Space Marine Land Raiders. Many chapters and Imperial Guard regiments rely on Armageddon for these services, so losing it to Orks or Chaos would be catastrophic.
Can't find it on Lexicanum, I think you're probably thinking of something else. First war for armageddon was GK and SW vs demons, so it'd be have to be second (orks), third (orks and later demons), or fourth (orks again).
Also Armageddon was retconned to be Ullanor (capitol of one ork empire at the end of the Great Crusade and another post-Heresy in the War of the Beast) and magically important to the orks for mysterious lore reasons a while ago.
It was hard to find but I found it! It's under the Eldrad Ulthran Lexicanum page: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Eldrad_Ulthran
Page 87 2nd. Edition Eldar Codex 3rd. paragraph, under Eldrad Ulthran:
As a result of Eldar raids the balance of power amongst rival factions was changed to favour one powerful Ork Warlord rather than another whose ambitions were more directly perilous to the Eldar. As a consequence it was the human world of Armageddon that felt the full wrath of the Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka. Neither Orks nor humans ever suspected that this was the fulfillment of a deliberate Eldar policy to direct Orksih aggression away from the Craftworlds. Such is the way that the Farseers manipulate the time-stream, with great skill and subtlety, without ever raising the suspicion of other races.
Aeldari xenophobia and disregard for alien life is funnily enough justified when it comes to the Imperium, which would consider 10 billion guardsmen a reasonable trade-off anyway.
As the saying goes, the eldar would sacrifice a billion humans to save one eldar, while the imperium would sacrifice a billion humans to kill one eldar.
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yeah, that tracks
It’s so cool how the game lets you be radically empathic and good, and when some fuckass dogmatic tries to tut-tut you about it you can just shoot them in the face while entire planets cheer you on