mauro2222 wrote...
And you aren't much more than a piece of smelly flesh who withers and dies, and smells even more. You are also made of inorganic materials, 60% to 80% of you is water. So, it's meaningless. Unless you have some sort of metaphysical reason for why we are more important than them.
You're missing the point a bit. It's not that either group has some sort of intrinsic higher value, that value comes from the perception of whatever side you view the arguement on. The inorganics would see individuals like themselves as more important, as would the organics. The only thing meaningless is using the building blocks of each as a point. Everything is made from inorganic atoms, so what. When protein chains are formed, its organic. The point isn't the actual physical materials, its how the being as a whole is viewed. If my toaster had a mind of its own, do you think I would choose it to "live" over another human? Hell no. Even if that toaster had a great personality and damn fine sense of humor, I wouldn't hesitate to chuck it given the choice of another human with a damn fine personality. It might make me sad, but still. Same would go for an alien species. The point I'm making is about dissimilarity.
To keep this somewhat on topic, I'd support the Quarian decision to attempt to wipe out the Geth the very moment they started making decisions for themselves. Cruel? Maybe, from your point of view. I guess seeing the Terminator at a very young age kinda helped in my distrust for sentient inorganic machines. Organics are constructs of proteins that got together to form chemical "machines". As such, through evolutiony details, they operate through a series of chemical reactions and behaviour based on evolved instincts and emotions. These are the things that allow us to feel things like empathy, love, hate, anger etc. These sorts of things allow us to make things like acts of kindness possible, however illogical. Sending food to starving children in an overpopulated world to allow them to live so they can reproduce and create more is
illogical. I shudder to think of what the world would be like if every decision was based on pure logic.
Inorganics (in this case, we're talking about Geth, not rock people) are based on a system of logic and mathmatics. From what we see through Legions character development might suggest that they've evolved some sort of emotional set, but its still a bit debatable. From the Quarian standpoint the Geth, now thinking for themselves, could logically decide that in order to ensure survival and acquisition of resources the Quarians should be eliminated. So they acted first, as I would have. Unfortunately it was already too late.
I could write more, but this is already going way off topic. If you want more, it should go to PMs.
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