"I wouldn't want to be, any more than you would want to be dragonfly or midge. But that doesn't mean that if you had sent your entire life watching over them, you wouldn't have some understanding of their lives." It's not dismissive - and he's not saying being human is a bad thing, if you are a human. But why would he want to be?

"And the fact that you have been through so much pain is entirely my point."