The codex is an in-universe source of information that has been shown to be wrong on several occasions. Thus it shouldn't be taken as absolute. Not that what you've quoted contradicts me anyway. See "legally marginal lives" and "hide the AY pathogy... placing most ardat-yakshi in monitored work programs or seclusion".Asenza wrote...
The codex exists to flesh out details that you wouldn't come across in gameplay. It only exists to provide information for conversations such as this.
"Contrary to popular belief, Ardat-Yakshi are neither extremely rare (around one per cent of asari dwell on the AY spectrum), nor are they all murderers. Most cultivate and discard countless exploitative or abusive relationships during their legally marginal lives. As a disproportionately wealthy species, asari employ their economic reach and media ownership to hide the AY pathology from the galactic community, placing most Ardat-Yakshi in monitored work programs or seclusion. Only the most aggressive cases are sentenced to sanitaria and prisons or to the execution lists of justicars."
It is clear that the lethality of the disorder (to others) is the only way to differentiate aggressive cases, as evidenced by the line that, "nor are they all murderers". Keeping 1% of a growing population in food, clothing and shelter for their entire millenia can't be a sustainable financial practice no matter how wealthy the government, so it stands to reason that not all of them are locked up. That would only be feasable if not all of them are deadly to their partners.
Freedom is one thing, a four-hundred year killing spree is another. If Morinth had gotten free and uhh, not killed people, she'd be free to be free. But she didn't. Ultimately it doesn't matter what her original intentions were, because of what she did with her freedom. Morinth is not a freedom fighter. She is just a hedonist that gets high when she kills people.
They were going to lock her up to stop her from killing people. Not because they were infringing on her rights, or because an uncaring government and society looked down on her. They were going to do it because she was a danger to others. She ran away and started killing people, proving them right.
Morinth was wrong.
And where did I say that they're all murderers anyway? That was in fact an earlier thought I had, what happens to an ardat-yakshi who doesn't feel like being hidden away or on "monitored work programs" but does not kill- what do the Justicars do in that case? We don't know- but I doubt it involves trying to make it in space-Hollywood. And the monitored work programs thing answers your question about economic sustainability. It's a cage, no way around that no matter how you sugar coat it.
No, Morinth would not be free even if she hadn't killed. I imagine they would opt for imprisonment as opposed to execution but someone (maybe Samara) would still be hunting her. And what Morinth became doesn't matter to this discussion. I'm not saying "Morinth was right". I'm saying "arday-yakshi are not exactly being treated fairly and if you want to call the Justicars evil, start with that".
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