Golden Owl wrote...
In some ways this^....I don't dislike the Quarians, but the simple fact is they did go in for a slaughter fest without provocation once they realized their creation had become self aware....the Geth simply started by trying to defend themselves from attack, yes the Geth took it too far, just as the Quarians had planned to do....wipe out a whole species.....The Quarians remain unwilling to consider alternatives, the Geth display a willingness.
Not all of this applies to you GoldenOwl.

Do we truly know the Quarians attacked en masse? We get a snippet that the one that asked do I have a soul was attempted to be shut down, but logically can we conclude the quarians whom a great quote from Tali "We love to debate" started it all. The quarians seem to take a great deal of time to do anything much less mobilize and stamp out a ubiquitous army of emergent AI in every facet of their society. The geth were construction vehicles and many other forms. They comunicate light speed so every geth was mobilized and that is why it was a slaughter. The evidence is from a geth so it automatically makes it true right?
If your car became aware while you were driving and refused to do what you wanted then what would you do? Take it to a repair shop which would likely replace the CPU or wipe it etc. That would be threatening it with destruction so now it is justified to lock you in and poison you to death with carbon monoxide right? No. Geth were a clear and present danger no matter how people want to look at it. Would you let it go free after you paid $25 K for it because you know it is a free lifeform?
It needs to be said the quarians made vast investments in creating the geth. They thought it was machines to make their lives easier more prosperous like humans do even today with robots building cars. Their whole society would have collapsed without the geth doing what they wree designed to do.
If a completely sapient bacteria was made that would exterminate every human on present Earth that it came in contact with, would any of you bemoan destroying it? No way.
If the geth were truly innocent and peaceful as they claim then they could have simply left. The quarians could not have possibly shut them all down. After all just one server holds millions of programs that can replicate replacing all hardware lost. Why would the geth fear the quarians which is an emotion BTW one they don't have? If they truly ran probabilities they would have realized the quarians posed no real threat to them.
So lets examine how they came up with termination. So if they did not want to be shut off so to speak how does that get to we must kill them all? In fact, how did they learn to kill? it stands to reason if you think it is bad for you to die then you know it is bad to kill another. So therefore negates any claims of innocence on the geth part. Self defense eh? Like the rogue AI in ME1 that tried to kill Shepard by exploding. All our Shepards are murdering monsters killing a sentient being then. No I don't see it that way at all. To let it go would have been idiotic. The geth were orders more dangerous than that credit siphoning program would ever be. They were a grave danger and proved it quite conclusively over 300 years.
Legion is one geth platform that might not be representative of the rest. One admiral was for peace with the geth too so that equals does it not? Is Legion the leader of the geth able to make treaties? Not as far as BW made clear. Even so will geth keep to their treaties if they make them? I have no idea and neither does anyone. Asari would fear military reprisal while the geth if they have the advantage will do what they want not caring if a billion platforms die while it is a deterrent for any organic race with leaders that have accountability. Wars also cost lots of money and wreak economic havok which again doesn't apply to the geth that can easily extract materials at no cost to them.
Modifié par InvincibleHero, 14 août 2011 - 06:12 .