There were times where Peter was completely and entirely capable of understanding where Alec was coming from, and this was definitely one of them.

Peter shifts to the edge of the bed so he's closer to Alec and lets his legs hang down.

"Don't you think it's important for those people to have autonomy? To be able to make their own decisions? Yeah, maybe some people would say that it's important for everyone to be aligned or something, but if everyone's blindly following the same orders, if something happens and everyone reacts the wrong way, everybody's dead."