"Yeah, that was actually pretty emotional moment."
It would have been so much better, like all emails in me2, if there was a narration.
"First, I can see Mikhailovich and Ashley and Pressly themselves claiming they are being "cautious". It's basically a politically correct way of saying xenophobic."
Ash is not xenophobic. She even criticizes the terra firma party for going too far.
This is like saying that anyone who does not agree with all the demands the gay agenda can come up with is a intolerant homophobic who desires their extermination by means of torture and death.
There are many levels of suspicion, distrust,
I can see the Admiral´s point of view. When the normandy was commissioned under Anderson, there was a full human crew aboard. When Shepard takes the ship for it´s first trip under his guide, you have a Quarian (even though it can be an imposition from Udina) and you can also have both a Turian and a krogan with you. And right after your first mission you can have an Asari with you. Even the Turian Councilor himself says he´s expecting you to be cautious with Liara, since she´s a close relative of Benezia. Now tell me, is the Turian Councilor xenophobic towards Asari? Or is he just displaying sound judgment? it was actually one of the few instances during the series in which one member of the council said something smart.
By the way, Saren did have an Asari agent on Noveria posing as an scientist. Liara could very well be in the same situation, with the whole trap thing being staged. The Krogan on the dig site was clear that they were not going to shoot at Liara, and attempt to take her alive. This could be because they´re working together.
By the way, if I were Shepard, I would have certain suspicions about Garrus. A guy who worked for C-Sec (being the son of a lifelong agent) his whole life suddenly quits and asks to go with me on my ship? I would consider him suspect of being an informant for the Turian government.
As for Wrex, he´s a known bouty hunter, with a rep for being constantly detained and questioned on the Citadel. I don´t know if he´s wanted for some crimes in the places I plan to visit. I know very little about him, and yet, out of the blue, he pays me and asks to come along. Very, very odd. You can´t even do a background check on him (questioning Garrus, his old boss, barla von, anderson, udina...). prior to deciding to take him or not. I doubt there´s no record on him being the son of an old warlord. Liara is smart, and does some search into shepard on google´s extranet equivalent.
Sure, since you know the game already based on some playthroughts, you can safely go the paragon route without being concerned about bad repercussions or being too naive with people you know very little or virtually nothing about it. But if this was real life, a prudent person would need to have some concerns. That much is obvious. This is common sense.
"Or at least close enough not to make a difference."
This is a false syllogism. So I have to choose between being totally open to aliens and even give them my credit card data and email password or being xenophobic? I think you´´ve been deluded by too much propaganda. You probably think that all the groups in europe who are for national identity preservation and against uncontrolled immigrations are all neo-nazis with a very evil agenda.
"Second, you're applying a blank statement to entire race, based on decision made by few privileged individuals and assuming that goes true for entire race, when we see in-game that is not true. That is it's own form of xenophobia."
As Udina (concerned about the reputation of humanity) himself says, and any grown-up person should know, recognize and accept as reality, we all get judged by how shepard behaves. That´s why they are called representatives. Take notice that the aliens themselves act in the same manner, looking down on the quarians after the geth fiasco.
A little distrust is only natural an can maintain a balanced and healthy distance from rampat paranoia or xenophobia. If Japan attacks the USA, it´s normal for people and the authorities to be concerned about people related to Japan, instead of other isolated groups like the Peruvians, Colombians, Argentinians, French,
I doubt you wanted to interrupt the Asari councilor and correct her when she said you represented everything good about humanity, since the people of earth were well represented by your paragon actions. You just moan whenever a representative of a race screws up and this give the group a bad rep.
"And yeah, every alien race has it's share of problems and shortcomings. I am well aware of that. What most pro-human and renegade Shepards(and, sometimes, by extension, their players)"
This is actually a defficieny in the moral system of the game. Why can´t I be "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves"? In real life, I don´t have to be naive in order to be nice. There´s nothing wrong with taking precautions, specially with people you know little about and in a situations in which a turian (who tried to sabotage humanity in the past) just made an act of war and is being protected by the council. Trust me, I´m all for being paragon. And yet, I still lock my door and close my windows when I go to sleep. Do you?
Maybe you´re just paranoid (like your entire generation is being intimidated at becoming) for fear of being label close-minded, intolerant, bigoted or whatever,
"seem to forget is that all of alien races actually have legitimate grievances with humanity."
Well, I did not forget him. As I said in a previous message, humanity is not without fault, but you can see that the other races behave in this fashion even among themselves.
"We're brutish, we're temperamental, we go over bodies and trample everything in our way. In short, we're pretty ****** intimidating."
Now hold on! Did I just see you labeling humanity as a whole based on the actions of a few individuals and leaders? Hypocrisy of hypocrisies...
You wish to talk about intimidation?
Well, the Krogan were bred for war and have very impressive bodies. War is in their nature, and they will have no problem in telling this to your intimidated face.
The Asari have the destiny ascention (talk about intimidation!) and natural biotic powers.
The turians, aside from being notorious as trigger-happy, have no problem with detonating a biological weapon capable of rendering a species nearly infertile.
The Salarians are very clever scientists, and are constantly involved in all kinds of illegal research.
it seems to me that intimidation was the rule of the game being played for many centuries before humanity entered the table.
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