I'm not asking you to respect her on account of being an officer.

I'm asking you to trust our judgement better, yoi.

I guarantee I've lost more hotheads than you simply by virtue of having more of them to lose. [And he told Rose how Thatch died, after all.]

But the one thing you have to learn about being a pirate is that hotheads will always go their own way. To impede that is to ask them to be someone they are not.

I would rather stand by helplessly watching Ace die to flames than to ever let the fire inside him die another way, eh? [Funny because that's how -- no wait, that's not funny at all.]

Sometimes our words can be more cutting than any blade.