ghost9191 wrote...
can we not say that ppl choose refuse so that they will not commit genocide, because i am pretty sure everyone knows by choosing to refuse you in turn cause the genocide of 14 species
ppl choose to refuse in order to fight the 3 options, well guess what happens by refusing, the reapers turn organics ( and synthetics) somehow into reapers, a form of synthesis if you will. They enslave races by indoctrinating them , like the collectors, and yes they commit genocide. So by choosing to refuse you commit all those acts that you do not wish to. By your actions genocide, slavery and mass genetic experimentation is committed, that is on shepard for not choosing to go with a option that the crucible was made for. The catalyst is just telling what they do, but has to power over it, or else it ( catalyst ) would've stopped it or chose for itself
but that is just me. just saying that the argument that you ( and i mean someone that chooses refuse ) choose refuse so you don't commit any of those "war crimes" is flawed considering all those crimes are done because of shepards action or inaction
We, as players who know how refuse turn out, know that by chosing to refues everyone dies. If I was playing this game fot the very first time, or was role playing as Sheppard who does not have magical future telling powers, and at no point during my play experience had his fortune read, knows for sure that his united force is going to lose. He's killed Reapers before. He knows that it can be done, so he knows that this isn't like throwing rocks at the sky in the hope of killing god.
As for your statement that the Catalyst would have made the choice itself if it knew what the best answer is, there is one fundamental flaw in that theory, and that is the question, what if the Catalyst is incapable of making that choice. It is, at it's core, a program. Based on what Leviathan tells us, it was designed and built to preserve life. Now, based on what we know about the Reapers and the Catalyst, they view both Synthetics and Organics as alive, so it can't chose destroy, because that would be destroying everything that they have preserved in reaper form, as well as killing all of the Geth, which is directly counter to it's programming. Control is not possible without someone to take control, so the Catalyst is incapable of doing this itself. Synthesis seems to require something special from Shepard. I believe the Catalyst says that even it doesn't understand what is special about him, so this is again, not possible for the Catalyst on it's own. That being said, even if the Catalyst had come to a super logical conclusion as to what option to take, it cannot take the option itself as the only option it can take is directly contradictory to it's programming and reason for being.
The Catalyst needs something from Sheppard, and it can't just indoctrinate him and make him do it, as that would make control and destroy impossible, and could take away whatever is special enough about Shepard to make synthesis right, so instead is manipulates through guilt, and possible lies to try and drive the decision towards the most desired outcome.
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