User blog comment:Bluegear93/Volus/@comment-5409845-20121010140433/@comment-1679409-20121010162559

I completely agree with your first sentence. And I think I have an even better solution: Don't want to play as a volus? Then don't play as a volus! Don't want to play with someone playing as a volus? Then don't join in games with volus characters!

And the lore argument is completely overblown. Their home planet has been conquered. They are fighting for the survival of their species. God knows how many volus have been melted down by the Reapers already. And their protectors, the turians, are fighting for their own homeworld and the survival of their own species. Even though the volus normally don't fight, desperate times call for desperate measures, just as there are no doubt children and the elderly fighting on Earth or Khar'shan.