Zodiark's Codex entry what do we think about it?

[RyuDragnier]

We don't know all we know is at least with the Volcano they weren't going to interfere and that anyone who wanted to leave already had. The other city(cities) on the other hand all we know is there was debate on weather or not to send help. The against sending was so that they wouldn't want to imped on them learning from dealing with the situation. It's been a long minute since I did that quest that had those two people debating about if it would be right to send help or not.

As it has for me, which is why I wasn't entirely sure. Time to rely on the greatest of tools for this occasion, GamerEscape.

EDIT: It sounds like it was a case of "It's not our job to interfere in every problem." Which may actually be why Azem always did the interfering...because as we can tell from both Venat and the stories of the then current Azem, eccentricity (in terms of the Ancients standards) seems to be drawn to that seat.