Stop drawing comparisons to WW2 and Rannoch during the morning Wars you dumb-asses. They're both completely different kinds of wars.
When Allied forces take Berlin in 1945, they're not going to suspect babies of having fascist sympathies and shoot them just to be sure. It was their goal to assimilate the non-combatents of occupied territories into their own way of thinking: Convert them from fascism into a democracy. You can do that, because it's a human-human conflict. It's an inner-species war with both sides having comparable ways of life that can be integrated.
This is not what the Morning war was about. It's an inter-species war that doesn't allow the absorption of non-combatents. The quarians can't take control over the Geth populace or integrate them into their own civilization as civilians (or at least no longer in a way the Geth want to be treated), and the Geth can't add Quarian babies to the Geth concensus upon capture. It's a genocide, rough and simple.
This means that wether or not the Morning War is a defensive War on part of the Geth, is left up for debate. Undoubtedly, the Geth did slaughter babies, old folk and Quarian civilians. Not just as collateral damage as found in WW2, but knowingly and wittingly, hunted them down and exterminated them They had to. The flotilla couldn't have evacuated everyone and there were bound to be stragglers. If there aren't any Quarians living on Rannoch at the start of ME1, than this means that these stragglers were prosicuted by the Geth.
In their defence however, you have to look at it like a machine. The Quarians were agressors and prolonged the war. Therefore, it's easy to reason logically, that all Quarian individuals need to be terminated or removed from Rannoch to live in peace. I don't think machines would have discriminated between infant or soldier while doing this. And without a organic conscience to tell right from wrong, no war crimes were commited on part of the Geth.
To the casual observer however, the Quarians and Geth are equally horrible. They have both comitted genocide on eachother. The Quarians commited atrocities based on fear. The Geth comitted atrocities based on logic.
And don't think that the Geth are metallic angels either. On my own playthrough of ME3, I hadn't been introduced to Legion yet. Because th Geth explained to me that the Quarians might have indeed been agressors, I initially sided with the Geth and allowed Legion to upload the Improved AI code to the fleet and destroy the Quarians in the progress if they didn't back down. It would have been the Quarians own damn fault.
However, as Tali pleaded me not to do it, Legion himself revealed that the Geth are little better.
"After the code is uploaded, we will destroy the Quarian fleet and end the wars. The destruction of the creators is the only solution."
It's exactly that reasoning that made the Geth indeed kill Quarian babies during the Morning war.
Both their excuses are flawed.
Modifié par Skirlasvoud, 17 avril 2012 - 11:25 .
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