Obadiah wrote...
The creepy part of the Reapers is, what if all of those uploaded minds of the cycles with their knowledge of their own history and behavior, what if once they were made into beings of pure logic they came to the same conclusions as the Catalyst?
I don't think they would become beings of pure logic unless they were based on a harvested species that had been purely logical.
And I think the Catalyst's conclusions are only logical if being 100% certain that synthetics will never completely exterminate organics takes priority over literally every other consideration. Most species would probably just reject the notion of making that the top priority or of using Reaper harvests to prevent it.
iakus wrote...
Or the Reapers themselves are indoctrinated by the Catalyst.
I don't think they're indoctrinated per se, but I view their situation as somewhat similar to the geth and their diminished intelligence after the quarians attacked them in ME3, i.e. their perspective is limited. They can't truly consider the possibility that the Catalyst is wrong and that the cycles are unethical or unnecessary.