Its not that I hate the Geth or that I even support the Quarian methods of dealing with them. Its just that....
I understand why the Quarians reacted to the Geth the way they did.
I'm disappointed that it happened and I'm saddened by the consequences, but I understand their reaction. I don't blame them for it and I refuse to hold it against them 300 years later when all those past Quarians are now dead but the same Geth are immortal and are probably still around.
300 years ago, Council laws forbade AI and the Quarians limited themselves to VI. They made the Geth to serve as tools, laborers and military hardware, the same way Humans on Earth made computers, smartphones, SIRI, robot factories, drones, sophisticated defense systems and whatnot. They were never meant to develop sentience. Imagine if on Earth, machines suddenly started deviating from their programming and doing things they're not supposed to do. We would shut them down, do a diagnostic and reset them because as far as we're concerned, they were malfunctioning machines. Now imagine if it was a computer system in charge of our weapons arsenal, including nuclear missiles? (Hello there Skynet) Would you honestly blame us for wanting to shut them down?
So the Geth start asking questions and learning at a geometric rate. What if from what they learned, they decided that organics were a threat and should be exterminated? Like Skynet and Ultron? What if they learned that because they were sentient, they were basically slaves under organic laws and morality and they rebelled over that?
All kinds of questions and implications were probably running through Quarian minds. They've now accidentally created illegal AI and committed the crime of slavery like Batarians. How will the Council races react? What political and economic sanctions would the Council impose? Will the Quarian reputation be ruined and their people ostracized? What if races declared war against the Quarians over this? And what about the Geth? They're supposed to be just machines. Are the Quarians gonna do something radical like granting them basic rights and integrating them into society in defiance of the anti-Geth people and risk civil war? Including the Geth platforms already designed for combat and military purposes? (don't give me that tripe about Geth picking up weapons and learning to use them. They were ALREADY designed as tools of war) What if even then, the Geth decide to do something that threatens the Quarians because the Geth, being synthetic alien intelligences, have a weird Blue and Orange Morality? Again, don't forget about the existence of the military models of Geth.
This is an unprecedented unfamiliar situation for the Quarians. What do they do? It would probably be far easier to just act like they're malfunctioning machines and shut them down and try to return everything to normalcy and the status quo. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
They lost the war. But hey, if the Quarians had won the war, nobody would be talking about silly things like "Pinocchio machines are real people!". And the war would be written off as a historical footnote where the Quarians gallantly prevented a machine uprising that would've threatened the galaxy. This reminds me of that ME1 Alliance side mission where Shepard destroys the possibly sentient VI on the moon because it was a threat and it had access to weapons systems. Does anybody regret doing that mission and getting the specialization class?
...You know what, I never understood the notion that the Geth should be praised for killing over 90% of Quarians but "sparing" the last 1% fleeing Quarians out of "mercy" or the "goodness" of their hearts. They killed over 90%. Or should I assume that the pro-Geth people considered all 100% of the Quarians to be guilty and by letting go the last 1% of guilty Quarians, the Geth were being "merciful"? Truth is, the Geth couldn't make up their minds on whether to kill off the last, tattered, fleeing refugees fast enough to actually do so. The Quarians were already overkilled and defeated, and maybe by killing them all, they risked attracting Citadel Council attention? The fact the Geth managed to kill 99% in such a short time....maybe the Quarians back then were right about fearing what the Geth were capable of doing to them? Personally I disagree about preemptive strikes, but hey, people make mistakes based on what seemed logical at the time.
I blame the narrative
Sigh, Mass Effect 3..... Bioware tried so hard to to bash me over the head with their bleeding heart narrative. They created the Heretic faction so players could say they support the "TRUE" Geth that didn't support killing the organics. Nevermind the implication that the "True" Geth allowed the Heretic faction to basically ruin relations between organics and synthetics for 300 years. They dehumanized the Quarians so much into faceless people in masks (Stormtroopers) that players (and Bioware) probably forgot the Quarians were also people with feelings and emotions and families and children. Genocide is baaad, except when it happens to Quarians because they "deserve it" for making decisions and mistakes that people love to judge using hindsight. Honestly its disgusting, but hey, its Bioware, they love drama and sensationalism and bleeding hearts for the sake of it. It makes me want to reject all of it just to spite them. I will never ever fall for Bioware's bait again.
I think people have forgotten movies like the Terminator.
....misanthropy and robot loving seems to be so popular.....
.....I think I'm done here.
Modifié par Vit246, 20 février 2016 - 07:11 .





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