MisterJB wrote...
Seryl wrote...
Then you are supremely arrogant. I rarely resort to ad hominems on the Internet, but I do think this is apt.
Reread what I wrote about how those past would have pushed the "Remove Homosexuality" button and they would have been just as justified and correct in their line of reasoning as you are. They wouldn't have known what they were doing; they wouldn't have had all the information required to make a decision of that magnitude, but they would have believed themselves to be right. It's pure hubris.
There are myths, legends and all kinds of other tales warning of this sort of hubris and how it always ends badly. History records lots of instances of people doing this kind of thing. The phrase "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" sums up why this is not a decision that people should be tempted to make.
Right or wrong is relative. Yes, to those people removing homosexuality would have made a better world while today, we would call it a hate crime.
Ignoring the problems with "Right or wrong is relative", you're using moral relativism to state that nobody can make a judgement on anything, while at the same time judging that those in the past would
have comitted a hate crime?
However, that still should not affect the decision Shepard has to make in 2187. He is a man of that age bounded by the morals of that age. With Synthesis, he is offered an option of preventing a war between synthetics and organics by bringing both forms of life together in mutual understanding and acceptance and I believe he should take it.
Except that the brat offering him that possibility has no reason to tell the truth. The brat's very existence proves that war probably won't happen. Shepard's own actions throughout the game also proves the certainty of that war suspect.
So, essentially Shepard is offered the POSSIBILITY of avoiding a war that may never happen anyway in exchange for overwriting the free will and choice of every living creature in the galaxy? This seems like a fair exchange?
Javik makes a comment in his "Throw the machine out of the airlock" speech that there was a race in his cycle that implanted themselves
with machinery. The machinery eventually took over the bodies of those
using it and made them a slave race. If that's not an in game rejection
of Synthesis, I don't know what is.
We can't make our decisions based on the morals our grand-grandsons might have but rather on the effects they will have on the world we live in.
Which is precisely why decisions of the magnitude that the Synthesis ending gives us should never be made by anybody. What is correct today may not be correct tomorrow and the person making the choice has no way to tell.
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