SpiffySquee wrote...
Sisterofshane wrote...
SpiffySquee wrote...
I don't see why the humans are any more deserving of being saved than the Asari. Should I save America over Europe? Should I save Texas over New York? I would try to save them both. If I could not, I would save which ever one I had the greatest chance of saving. If they had an equal chance, I would save which ever one had the greatest chance of rebuilding galactic civilization... which I think would be the Asari. Anyone who says I would save humans just because I'm a human (even if I say otherwise) is simply injecting their beliefs on my personality.
It's not really about deserving to be saved. To put it in that sense makes it sound like there are criterion upon which to judge all the races, which there are not (unless you happen to be a Reaper...)
But ask an Asari if she would sacrifice the last of her species for only the expressed purpose of saving another species, even if her own has a chance to survive by neglecting the other.
If it came down to one simple choice - sacrifice Humanity or another species (both equally capable of rebuilding after the war), which one would you (as a human) pick?
I think of it kind of like what Ash said in ME1 -- if you ran into a bear, as much as you love him, you would tell your dog to sic it and run for your life. It doesn't quite apply equally, but the chance to continue your own way of life seems (to me) to be a pretty important reason to want to save your own species.
odd... because if my cat was trapped in a burning house, I would risk my life to save it. If a bear were chasing my I most certainly would not send a dog I loved to hold if off. That statement is one of the reason I really do not like her. We would both run, or we would both fight. I would never sacrifice something I loved and cared about just to save my own skin.
As for if everything was completely equal? Thankfully that is never the case. One race would have a greater chance of survival than the other, and I would chose that one. If in the strange event that everything was completely equal, I would save which ever race had more people. That way I could say I save the most lives I could.
Eh, that's why I said it doesn't really apply, but it's about the same concept.
How about this analogy for you then -- your house is burning down. You have only enough time to save your cat, or your child -- now which one would you save? I think it can be argued that you can love both equally, but which one do you value more when it comes to sacrificing one over the other?
And I agree that there would never really be such a hypothetical situation as to just coming down to straight sacrificing a species for the other. But in this case, it would need context -- context that only the game will provide. Until then we can only speculate as to the worth of these races in the present battle against the Reapers and the future.
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