Arcian wrote...
@GodWood: The slaughter was not in aggression, but in self-defense. What you are suggesting is that the only way the geth could have earned their right to exist is if they willingly let the quarians exterminate them.
If someone was intent on killing my people, I'd damn well protect them, even if it meant pushing the population of my enemies down to a critical level where they are no longer a valid threat. Their lives became forfeit the moment they put their intent to kill into action. Mens rea versus actus reus. In this case, the quarians had malicious intentions and acted upon them, whereas the geth were forced to defend themselves when they would rather have avoided unnecessary bloodshed.
Then again, many claim they are inherently hostile and aggressive because they are fiercely territorial, and that this is justification enough for total extermination. Then again, animals do this very exact thing in the wild because they are perfectly aware of how dangerous and aggressive humans are, but you don't see us driving entire species into extinction because of that?
Ah, but geth are machines. They are soulless tools without worth like us oh-so-useful organics. The fact that they are intelligent and capable of independent thought doesn't matter since metal, glass and polymer are obviously inferior to a mass of automated cells and bodily fluids whose only purpose in the universe is to procreate and consume.
Just a few points, firstly, the Geth counter offensive was carried well beyond the point of military necessity. 99.9% of the species annihilated is tetimony to that.
And second, ah hell, I'll just cut/paste what I said elsewhere. The General Shutdown attempt was the best option the quarians had. The Geth were showing signs of developing sentience and evolving to AI status. At this point, there's two ways they can go
Option 1: Do nothing
At this point they risk the essentially enslaved machines following the trend of other AIs and turning hostile. Geth are omnipresent in quarian society, so this is a Very Bad Thing. They will also incur the wrath of the Citadel for openly tolerating and operating an AI system, and as the FCW demonstrated, the Turians interpret "enforcing Citadel Law" as " shoot the offending party with really big guns".
Option 2: Shut down the Geth
While they'll still incur Citadel sanctions, because the Council doesn't believe in natural justice for non-council species it seems (Seriously, the quarian situation and the lack of any sanctions against the Turians following the FCW makes me question if they've ever heard of Mens Rea), they can hopefully stop them developing full sentience and avoid the possibility of a robot revolution, once they isolate the source of this latest development.
As it turns out, they got the worst of both worlds, but hindsight is 20/20.
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