Borschtbeet wrote...
The council considers every citadel species an important member of it's community but it would be too much of a burden to place all of the responsibilities that come with being a counil race on races that are less developed and not ready to deal with the responsibilities that come with overseeing an organization which deals with so many billions of lives.
It's the same reason why many people oppose the Baltic states ascension into the EU.
The council seeks cooperation, Cerberus seeks dominance and coercion. The council merely requires that other races prove themselves capable of standing up for the galactic community which humanity did in Mass Effect 1.
It would be irresponsible to let just any race join.
Council seeks cooperation, but also utilizes SPECTREs who are more or less tools of dominance & coercion to keep 'galactic stability'. To consider the Council righteous is naive. Slow to act, suspicious beyond reason, ultimately ineffectual.
Humans learned from the succession of Alliance Military from Earth that there's a time for debate, and there's a time for action. Cerberus being a former Alliance Black-Operations Unit, understands this better than anyone, and forms the basis of their philosophy.