"Do you term everything that isn't like your species that way? That's extremely close-minded of you. Wearing clothing and having different diets isn't inherently wrong, you know." He thought he'd left that mindset behind on Colu.

"And you're acting like your species is inherently better than any other by virtue of being different. That makes even less sense than assuming a single race are the only ones capable of defeating a threat. Unless you happen to have some evolutionary adaptation that takes advantage of a weakness in these Yeerks that no other species can, then you can't make assumptions like that."