Nyoka wrote...
- You let the Reapers walk free after everything they have done. Trillions dead don't matter.
- There is no pinnacle of evolution, or even "next step" for that matter. Evolution has no direction. This is intelligent design, not evolution. Which leads to the next point:
- You are governing the galaxy instead of fighting for the galaxy. Shepard is no longer a soldier, becomes a demigod.
- Which is what you were fighting against 5 minutes ago: demigods who do what they do because they think they know better.
- The idea of modifying everybody because you know better. Paternalistic autoritharianism, bread and butter of all dictators. Equivalent to brainwashing everybody so they agree with your ideas. Dissent is forbidden in Shepard's new galactic utopia. Worse: not just forbidden, it's wiped out down to a genetic level. She doesn't even need to forbid it.
- People say free will is maintained, but this is meaningless - Shepard proved how little she cares about the will of the people. People who had nothing to do with the Reapers or the war were transformed. The only way for them to not continue building synthetics is for them to accept Shepard's and the Catalyst's ideas. Whether those ideas are better is irrelevant to the issue of free will. They wanted to build synthetics. Now they don't. Shepard changed their minds.
- The idea that empathy can only be gained through uniformity. Now everything is life, there are no distinctions organic/synthetic, and therefore we will get along. First, makes no sense, since twins often don't get along. Second, it contradicts the ideal of unity through dialogue and common goals that we experienced for 99% of the trilogy. Third, it contradicts the humanization of the robotic characters throughout ME3. We are continually being shown that synthetics are people too. EDI falls in love. Legion refers to himself as "I" instead of "we". Then, synthesis states that the only way to avoid an organic/synthetic war and eventual extinction is to make everybody a hybrid, making the stories of EDI and Legion pointless.
Punishing the Reapers is not relevant. Wikipedia (not a really trusty source I know) gives 6 reasons for punishment:
Prevention: which is hardly relevant because I doubt someone else will be able to recreate the reapers to wipe out life again and again.
Rehabilitation: Not releveant, Reapers were never part of our society. And since they are each a nation, not do they need to be.
Social protection: That's already achieved with synthesis
Restoration: One might put the reapers to work, rebuilding everything they destroyed. But I doubt that any organic would actually accept that...
Education: The reapers made a very basic error in their way of thinking. This won't really be helped by punishing them. Maybe if you would let them work with both synthetics and organics? I can't see anybody willing to do that, also this is a way to prevent a crime happening again, which was already prevented by synthesis.
Retribution. Punishing just for punishing is never a good idea. It really would reduce organics down to barbarism. Which would (in my eyes) almost justify the Reapers killing everybody.
There is indeed no pinnacle of evolution. However, what humans (and maybe other sentient organics) do, is change their surroundings to their own behaviour. Not the other way around. Once people are getting smart enough to either change the situation, rather than themselves. Or adapt themselves with cybernetics/organic means, then evolution will come to a halt because it's just too slow. This is already happening in our current society, let alone 200 years in the future.
What is wrong with becoming a demigod?
Everybody can only do what they think is best. Why would your opinion be worse than anybody else's? Yes, you might want to ask other people's opinions on the matter, but that wasn't possible here.
Dictatorships is actually a valid way of ruling a population. In a lot of aspects is better than a democracy. Because they actually get things done. The only downside is the fact that a single person is often corruptable.
EVERYBODY is a part of the Reaper war.
The starchild never states that all life will be exactly the same. He only informs that synthesis will provide new blueprints for everybody. It's far more 'logical' that species with different genetical make up will stilll be different after synthesis. It may not solve all problems in the galaxy, but what is the root of all problems? Resources. We only fight because something is important to us. Synthetics need far less resources than organics. If they don't like somebody they could just move away. Something that is often not possible due to a lack of resources.
Note: there are a lot of things wrong with synthesis. But I do enjoy playing the devil's advocate.
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. I just totally disagree with Democracy is all.
