Wolfva2 wrote...
Twilight, methinks you're confusing something here. The purpose of the Reapers and their harvest was to protect LIFE, not individuals. They did not exist to make sure Humans, Turians, etc lived. They exist to ensure that ORGANIC LIFE is not completely wiped out by synthetics. The belief being that when a species became advanced enough, they would create smarter synthetics. The synthetics would then, upon seeing the flawed organics, decide to eliminate ALL organics to remove the 'chaos' factor inherent in life.
I believe it is you who are confused. The Leviathans claim to have created the Intelligence with a mandate to PRESERVE life. And those same Leviathans follow that by stating the Reapers are NOT adhering to that mandate.
Furthermore, the Reapers do not protect life. They destroy it. Protecting it would be akin to what Shepard thinks he's going to do in Control. Essential, police the galaxy. There is no threat of synthetics systematically scouring the galaxy rock by rock to eradicate all organic compounds, both complex and simple. That is utterly ludicrous and contradicted by other sources in-game. The Leviathans made it clear that organic thralls were still around when the Reapers turned on them. There was never a point in history where thrall-made synthetics even had the capability to perform such an outrageous act due to technological limitations and there always being a bigger fish (Leviathans/Reapers). And there is no evidence whatsoever that said synthetics were a threat to anyone other than their immediate subjugators. The only anecdotes we have are the Zha'til and the Geth/Quarians and both contradict the Reaper's claims. It would have made more sense to just reaperize the synthetics, who are already machines anyway, and wave their fingers at organics and say, "bad organics". Rinse and repeat. There are multitude of far more rational and practical methods to prevent some
supposed galaxy wide genocide.
Regardless, I would have to believe the Reapers story to even discuss their motives as if they were valid. I don't. You need to show why anyone should believe a word they say to begin with as their is literally no reason whatsoever to trust them.
By harvesting the higher lifeforms periodically, the Reapers allow new life to propagate, something that would not happen if synthetics had their way.
According to the enemy making up a story to try and convince you not to pull the trigger on the gun you have to their head. The Geth and Zha'til contradict your assertion. Your entire perspective hinges on the idea that the Reapers are telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They are not. This has been proven. So your entire argument is moot until you can reconcile the inconsistencies with the Kid's story.
It's like fishing quota systems. You're allowed to catch X number of fish of a certain size. Anything under that size get's tossed back. These systems exist because, otherwise, the fish would be fished into extinction. The Catalyst was programmed to believe synthetics would fish organic life into extinction, so it established it's own quota system. The little fish (like what would become the alliance governments of the last cycle) get tossed back to grow while the big fish (Protheans) are mounted on a wall.
Stop calling it the Catalyst. It is not the Catalyst. The Catalyst is the Citadel. The term "Catalyst" did not exist until protheans scientists made it up. The Reapers created the Citadel. No AI was ever living there; otherwise, ME1 would never have occurred. And, no, the Intelligence was never programmed to believe that synthetics would scour the galaxy clean of organic compounds (a virtual impossibility as organic compounds are just as much an inevitable outcome as the formation of suns). Look over the Leviathan conversation again. The Reapers are rogue machines. We do not know what their motives or objectives are because first they claim we can't understand their motives and then, when a gun is to their heads, tell us a lie filled nonsensical story that is suddenly understandable (if not completely ridiculous). There is nothing credible presented by them.
Modifié par The Twilight God, 08 mai 2013 - 02:44 .
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