Jagri wrote...
Still doesn't address the complete disregard for life but you make a case in which TIM isn't stupid and knows when to assist and aid others when it will help further his own goals. That and humanities relationship with the Salarians, Turians, and Asari during those times needed to be strong in order to advance.
Tell me what does TIM tend to do with people and experiments that out live their usefulness to him?
TIM doesn't demonstrate a complete disregard for life. Quite the opposite: the problem isn't that TIM disregards lives, but that he regards them, and then simply doesn't place individual lives on a highest pedastal like many people do. He has a regard for life: it happens to be a low regard compared to you, and one in which the many outweigh the few. But however low it may be, we have never seen, heard, or have had it implied that TIM has ever killed anyone without a point. Even in Retribution, where he embarked on personal revenge against someone who betrayed Cerberus, he put a point to having Grayson actually contribute to something larger.
It doesn't matter if the few are innocent. It doesn't matter if the few are unwilling. What does matter, is that the sacrifices of the few (willing or unwilling) either do, or can, have a plausible aspect to serving the greater. Is this morally abhorrent? When taken to it's logical extreme, it does mitigate the respect for the individual, which a firm western concept of importance. (Far less so, in other times or other places.) But at the same time, it's a firm demonstration of regard of the lives of the greater whole, which, when this is
not considered, is also something we find culturally, morally, and ethically repulsive (someone who puts what they want infront of everyone else).
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