DistantUtopia wrote...
They are when they merge with Reaper Tech. If you've killed them before hand, then yes, only EDI is the AI.
People don't seem to get that the Reaper code and EDI's quantum entanglement box basically means that every individual is an individual entity, and thus cannot be rebuilt if they are destroyed. There'll be no way to recreate them exactly, or even near to what they were. And without the Reaper code, the geth can't even gain the true sentience that Legion achieved in the end.
So... basically, you're screwing things up for so many people. If you broker a peace between the quarians and the geth, then teh geth merge with their suits in order to handle their adaption to their homeworld. Something that would now take months rather than years. Best case scenario: The quarians now have to wait years before they can call their homeworld trulhy a homeworld again. Worst case scenario: The quarian suits are considered synthetic life and their suits
die. How many quarians would die in that scenario?
Not only that, but then there's Joker. You're taking away his only love and his ability to cope. You're just slaughtering her in cold blood. She can't be remade. She tells you why she can't be recreated in ME2. But you're killing her anyway... and Joker's going to be on his own again - no one to be with him to make his life better. He's pretty much going to feel fairly suicidal after that.
And then there are any other people who're enhanced with synthetic quantities, the Catalyst tells you that they'll meet their end, too. And what about AI that we're not introduced to? What about any other AIs that happen to be out there? AIs in hiding? They get to die, too. Their only sin is to be an AI. That kind of reminds me of atrocities in the past, with people whose only sin was to be Jewish, or black, or gay. And people could look the other way because they lacked the ability to empathise. They couldn't put themselves in the shoes of those other people. Or they were too scared to.
And that's what I'm seeing a lot of. Emotional maturity actually requires a well rounded intellect, to be able to empathise and sympathise. Any ethical person wouldn't ignore the plight of the quarians, the geth, Joker, or anyone else who'd get caught up in this. But you need empathy for that, you need to understand ethics for that, and to possess either of these things? You need to be intelligent. It's been proven time and again in studies that greed, vanity, and selfishness are borne of a deficit of intelligence... and it's... it's sobering to see that first hand. Here.
It makes you realise just how much something like Synthesis is needed - to boost the intelligence of the average person to the point where they are capable of empathy, sympathy, and ethics. Things that I take for granted, just as a day to day thing. Synthesis is something we could use today, really - and ME3 proves that.
People don't understand what empathy and sympathy are, they don't understand what ethics is or its applications, and they don't understand why others would balk at the mistreatment of the geth, EDI, Joker, or anyone else. They only understand mistreatment to their own person - sociopathy, essentially. What's sobering is realising just how widespread sociopathy is. It's an eye-opener.
I mean, if a person said that their Shepard was a monster and that they were roleplaying him/her that way, then fine. But I've seen excuses, like people were trying to defend Destroy as something they'd do. And it just proves everything I've said. Humanity is rife with sociopathy, and the realisation is sobering. I wish I could take my capability for empathy, sympathy, and ethics, and just write that onto those who don't possess it. They need it. They don't even realise why tehy need it, but they need it.
So we're going to see many more instances of poor excuses or people being easily confused about why we wouldn't want to watch the geth or EDI die. For those reasons.
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