Btw, as much as you might like to headcanon otherwise, it's actually impossible to make a Shepard (paragon, renegade, paragade, whatever) who ever says he wants to do anything other than destroy the Reapers. Until the last 10 minutes of the game, anyway.
Because she doesn't see other valid options. Shepard is also perfectly content with annihilating Rachni and Geth like pests until presented with valid alternatives, and the a Paragon Shep takes a different path than annihilation. There are numerous points in the games where Shep is presented with choices in which there is a deadly, threatening life form or organization, and you are given the opportunity to wipe them from existence. . . or, you could choose to spare them, on the basis that they promise to behave. This is never a certainty, you always take the risk that they will return to do harm again, but to a Paragon Shep, wiping out the enemy is not the goal, saving the victims is the goal, and if that can be achieved without killing, then Paragon Shep will take that option.
Now you can fairly claim that a Paragon Shep would choose Destroy anyways, but she would definitely think very hard about it first.
Second bolded text, I would propose that the journey does not end with Shepard choosing a particular option, and synthesis certainly does not entail the end of anything
I didn't mean it as the "end of the story," I meant it as in the phrase "means to an end", as in a "goal." To Paragon Shepard, killing the Reapers is not her goal, saving life in the Galaxy is her goal, she just sees killing the Reapers as the only way to do that under the circumstances. If there is another path that she sees as valid, then she is likely to consider it.
Plus, making synthetics .. i dont know.. feel emotions.. means that they now are able to feel hatred, jealousy, greed etc as well. So this by no means grants eternal peace!
True, and there's no promise of that. The Synth ending by no means ensures eternal peace, the only point to it is that it ensures that there will never be a war of annihilation in which synthetics will wipe out organics, because those distinctions no longer exist. It's a bit like if all the religions in the world decided that all religions are the same religion, and thus there would never again be any reason to fight over who's religion was "right," people would still fight over all sorts of other things, just not over religion anymore.
Plus², are all those who have been reaped/ harvested already now connected to the others? Are the husks now sentient beings again? What horror.
Eh. They seemed content with it. It's unclear how developed the Husks and other humanoid reapers are, but I highly doubt that they would retain their original human or alien memories. They are likely completely new entities, a bit like the Geth, who don't seem to mind their own existence. Either that or they remain as a sort of hive mind entity, with each physical body only being a limb of the greater whole. Either way they don't seem to be bothered, they didn't break down screaming or anything.
Plus³, synthesis is pretty much like rewriting the geth- heretics back in ME2, it was very morally questionable but we did it to not kill the Geth altogether, but Legion said that it would alter them, I hope I remember right when I say they said it was like "brainwashing".
Not really. Rewriting the Geth would have changed who they WERE, it would change their MINDS. The Synth ending does not claim to alter anyone's minds, it just alters their physical bodies. They have all the same memories and personalities they had before, and are free to make their own choices based on that.
Something that got me was: how can the Catalyst, on the one hand, claim that it had any idea what the "final/ultimate/whatever evolution of life" would and/or should be, and on the other hand, claim that it doesn't understand organics.
It's a fairly standardly understood evolutionary endgame. Look up the "technological singularity." It's pretty much assumed that if humanity continues to exist for the next few hundred years, and unless deliberate action is taken to retard our growth as a species (like laws against it), humans will continue to chemically and mechanically augment our bodies and minds to the point that we become indistinguishable from machines. The Geth are our future.
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