[A pause as it finally sort of dawns on him that he might have been insulting Aidan more than the DF throughout all of this. He wasn't really meaning to put him down... it was about that sort of authority and organization in THIS place. Back home... his ideals made more sense.]
Tch, it's more like we don't need them. [An attempt at turning this around. It might be piss-poor but, it was something.]
People here aren't helpless. [And those that were would probably be protected anyway. He just didn't see the point.]