Ok, I have heard lots of arguments and opinions on why each ending had their ups and downs, and the results of making that hard and difficult choice.
Before you go an start hating or praising the choice you prefer, I ask this. This is somewhat based in a hypthetical situation where this were to actually happen in reality. So please bare with me.
What makes the destroy ending so horrible to those that hate it?
I understand that Synthesis allows just about everyone, save the casualties of war to survive on a more grand scale a supreme life force if you will. But in my opinion based on a moral perspective. It is not Shepard's decision to deicide somthing like that for anyone except maybe himself. He cannot speak for an entire gallactic civilization. By making that kind of choice even though it seems to be a better way out than other choices is just unethical and illogical.
Now we have the Control choice. Yeah, control allows Shepard to use control them in a sense of becomong a god and forcing them to leave civilized space forever. Yeah, it seems like a good choice but in the end you are allowing am abomination to keep its existance alive. Somthing that does and has done horrible and disturbing things for a means of irradicating all life that is so evolved that they danger their existance. Shouldn't thoes people face the repercutions of their actions instead of a more powerfull non organic form of life making that choice for them?
They should take responsibility for their actions so in my opinion Controling somthing that thinks they have that right is just absurd, immoral and again illogical. It goes against everything humanity and all life stands for.
Now we have Destroy choice. If you chose destroy, things get a little darker, all artificial intelligence and synthetic creations will be destroyed. Me being a U.S. Marine, I am taught preservation of life no questions asked. Logic dictates I do what ever is necessary to protect all living things wheather it be from others or from themselves. Commander Shepard in this case, can make that kind of choice based on a moral aspect of life as a whole.
Regardless what kinds of peace treaties wer brokered between synthetics and organics. Since when does human or any organic life less important over a machine regardless of if it can be more human in nature. In the end rgardless of what a synthetic may think it is still a machine. Yes it is sad that you were able, if you qualmed the war between geth and quarian or made EDI think more like a human than not. Destroy in my opinion is the best choice to make, is it the right one?
Not necessarily. Neither choice in my opinion is 100% right. Yes, you destroy majority of all synthetic life, but is synthetic life more valuable than an entire galactic civilization to live in a world where Reapers are 100% gone where no threat of them is ever present? I think it sucks that most Geth are gone and EDI is gone but they knew what they would probably have to sacrifice themselves if necessary. In that respect we can honor that sacrifice, and we all can live out the rest of our lives in peace with no fear of such destruction and loss of life. Still, they are not living beings therefore making a choice like destroy is easier to make. Techincally you cannot cause genocide with something that does not live like the bulk of the galactic civilization as a whole. Some will argue based on what upgrades the Geth got that they were more human, but they are not. Just because it can comprehend our logic from a synthetics normal logic doesn't make it alive.
It does suck that it comes down to one person making that choice, but machines are machines no matter how human they seem to be. I would gladly in reality sacrifice a machine to save my brothers in arms, my family, friends and myself so we can preserve our current way of life. I would have it no other way. Preservation of life is all that matters, not to make it better, not to go against all logic and choose to controll somthing that could eventually come back to bite us in the ass. We were made one way the way we are currently. I do not want to be more supreme as a being. I don't want to have to worry about a large destructive abomination still living in the far beynd galaxies just hoping somthing doesn't happen to where they decide it's necessary to come back and irradicate all life that is more evolved.
If I had to sacrifice myself to preserve all civilized life I would make that choice. We can prosper on our own we have done it in the past and we can do it again. It will help all life grow stronger and more resillient. But then again, that is just me.
Modifié par Peregrin25, 29 juin 2012 - 03:16 .
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