MisterJB wrote...
Turian economy depends entirely on their "arrangement" with the volus. If the volus wanted independed, you actually believe the turians would simply accept this? It does not need to be shown, it's common logic.
That "arrangement" is an extorsion racket at best and imperialism at worst.
What is common logic, and what we are shown, is that the Turians are working co-operatively with the Volus as a form of symbiosis, not oppressing the Volus and forcing them to hand over resources. Your paranoia - as I can think of no better word for the attitude you display towards every other living thing on this planet and in games - is what makes you believe the Turians are extorting the Volus, or ruling over them.
I do read the Codex and that is merely the turian's excuse. Like Charles Saraccino says, if I see a child reaching for a gun, I will pun the gun away because the child might hurt himself and others.
I do not shoot the child and then find out where he lives and shoot his whole family as well.
The turians could have stopped humanity from opening the Relay without anyone dying. Instead, they chose to fire on our ships without warning and then occupy one of our colonies. Don't tell me they were just enforcing Council laws and don't believe their lies.
The turians attempted to enslave humanity.
And police attempt to enslave people who pull out guns in the middle of a street.
How could the Turians communicate with us? They did not know our language.
The only way they could stop us would be to destroy our ships.
Yes, they then go to Shanxi. However, they did not mobolise any military to actually follow us to Earth until the Alliance mobolised a large strike force to attack the Turians at Shanxi.
Please try to understand that not everything has to have the desire to control and rule over everything it comes across, and of those that do have that desire, not everything acts on it. The only evidence you have of your claims is your suspicion and paranoia. Such things would not stand up in a court, and for the valid reason there is no logic behind such claims. Its like me claiming all cliffs want to push people off them.
We don't need to blow up every rock because it holds no value to us but we also don't take the rocks into consideration when planning our progress. If we have to drill a tunnel through a mountain, we will just do it.
The same applies to any species more advanced than humanity. They won't place any value on us and thus, won't take into consideration our needs and wants when planning their own advancement.
However, if we begin drilling into that mountain, and that mountain turns out to be a volcano that starts erupting, we won't touch that mountain.
We will fight back, and that will make it more logical to simply avoid us as we are an obsticle than to dedicate resources to destroying us. All this is assuming that synthetics reach a point were they are more powerful than us, and have not developed empathy or any other such emotions.
Despite your sarcasm, you are right. Remorse and empathy is not something most organics feel.
I simply chose to point out those two because, as rare as they might be, it's still something organics have and synthetics don't.
Unless if loaded with Reaper code, apparently.
Wow. How do you walk down the street?
Are you not cowering in fear that everything around you wants to kill you?
'cause seriously - that's your world view. I have never spoken to someone who seems to hate any life or intelligence so much as you do, or sees it in so negative a light. Your paranoia seriously is beyond my belief.
Believe it or not, I was being sarcastic due to the fact that most people DO feel empathy. There is not a single person I know that does not, and would be very few that I would ever meet in my lifetime that wouldn't.
The vast majority of the human populace has empathy, and a number of animals do to. Maybe if you didn't treat them so hatefully, you would see this.
You have also provided no reason why synthetics could never feel empathy. By the time they are that developed, it is more than likely they will have a full range of emotions. Remember that even us humans really are just machines - our circuitry is made of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorous, sulfur and nitrogen however. We both exist thanks to electrical impulses travelling along these circuits. By the time a machine mind reaches the complexity of an organic mind, it has every chance of being able to feel the same emotions as we do.
Yes, a lot of people care for animals. And yet, the fauna on our planet is becoming more and more endangered everyday. Their habitats are destroyed and the best they can hope for is a zoo or adapting to domestic life.
So, maybe subjectively superior life forms won't always cause the extinction of those inferior (just most of the time) but the idea of humanity living in the galaxy as animals live on Earth today is not something I cherish.
Believe it or not the best they can hope for is to be living in a sanctuary that has been decreed off limits for any and all development often due to it being a known habitat for an endangered creature. Whilst me may not be allowed to just run out and grab colonies at will, due to the development of "More important species", it is likely that we would be left alone for the most part. For all we know, that is what could be happening right now - Earth being declared off limits for development by some alien existance because we live here.
Not everything has to want to exploit us or end us. Believe it or not, a large number of beings on this planet, human or otherwise, do want to co-operate with each other.
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