In Exile wrote...
No. That's not what I said. What I said was that you are whitewashing them by suggesting that despite all the evidence we've had in-game that every single darkspawn expect the Messenger rapes, kills and murders for fun that they would magically stop doing that as an entire group of people is somehow still lore consistet.
Sorry for just the snippit of your post here; too big of a wall of text. Plus I want to start over so we aren't devolving into an argument vs. spirited debate.
I think we are both mistaking each other's points here. I was wrong thinking, as you said, that you objected to the possibility of Darkspawn allies because the Taint had a 100% mortality rate. I apololigize for that assumption.
On the other hand I have never (or at least never intened) to say that
ALL Darkspawn or
ALL Awakened Darkspawn, would suddenly stop commiting horrible atrocities and be humane, life respecting good guys. Your right in saying that such a senario would be 'Pulling a Geth'.
No, my idea/request/position (whatever you want to call it) was for a very, very small amount of Awakened being possible allies. Ideally the Messenger; since he is the basis for the whole concept of non murdering, non raping Darkspawn; and at
most 4 or 5 other 'good' Awakened, but even that would be pushing it.
You are right to say that the overwhelming majority of Darkspawn, and the Awakened Darkspawn are evil abominations, and I am right with you and others in exterminating them,
but, as you have said, the Messenger is the exception. All I am saying is that I would like the possibility of recruiting these few Darkspawn as allies, not the entire horde.
With such a small number of Darkspawn, all of the points we were debating earlier wouldn't really factor (as much) into the logisitcs of have Darkspawn allies, because; as you have pointed out; this wouldn't be a massing of the creatures on the surface.