Hypothetical: What if the Yeerks asked first?

[SarahConnor2]

I would feed all known controllers oatmeal

I remember there was a particular flavor for the oatmeal....anyone remember what it was?

[Alic]

Maple ad ginger I googled "what flavor oatmeal kills yeerks lol"

[AniDragon]

INSTANT maple and ginger oatmeal.

[voodooqueen126]

we could cut a deal or something:
Allegory:
Yeerks=America/Spain
Andalites=British
Humans=Africa.
we could fight our crazy tribal wars with each other, the loser gets captured and  sold to the yeerks for the equivalent of glass beads/AIDS vaccine/new ways to kill  people etc. Then the Andalites would try and police this trade and save the human race from selling itself into slavery and colonise our planet the way the brits did to africa a veritable male Andalites burden.
Or we could sell the Yeerks our mentally ill, retards who are still physically fit, criminals and welfare dependents and thus avoid turning into idiocracy.

[Tim Bruening]

Just a hypothetical question that got me thinking as I'm reading through The Host at the moment. In both stories, Animorphs and The Host, the parasites enforced themselves into humans in the first wave, but what if in real life that wasn't the case?

What if in our reality, a bunch of aliens came down as Hork-Bajirs or spiders,  or any of the other creatures that they had as hosts from other planets, and they told the world up front what they were: parasites that attached into their host's bodies, to experience life as you do? Do you think humans would be more likely to submit themselves to experimenting in this, or would they immediately turn hostile and try to kill/capture them first?

More importantly, what would you do?

I wonder if Seerow would have been willing to serve as a host if the Yeerks had asked him politely.