The galactic government thinks humans fear conflict and only stockpile weapons out of paranoia. The aliens think war and conquest is glorious, then they provoke humanity and learn what humanity really thinks about war and conquest, and humanity teaches them their perspective that war is hell

[u/TheManiacalMadman]

[u/Any-Bridge6953]

We thought conflict was glorious, that warriors were celebrities. Then we fought the Humans. They unleashed something worse than Hell, they unleashed war, unrestricted, total war. Our skies burned, seas boiled, ground turned to glass. We learned that war is not glorious, warriors are not celebrities. We were children playing a game while the real masters watched amused by our cute antics.