There are plenty of good reasons not to hand Legion over, and evidently no good reason to hand Legion over.
First of all, as a couple of posters have pointed out, you can't hate the Geth simply because of the Heretics. (It makes about as much sense as hating all Germans because of the ****s.)
Sympathy for Quarians? You can love Tali while admitting that Quarians weren't right in the way they treated the Geth. One poster wrote that you have every right to kill an artificial intelligence you created. Hmm, it must be the whole artificial thing that makes all the difference, 'cause I'm sure nobody here thinks that you have a right to do whatever you please with anything you create! (Have kids, anyone?) And if the artificial thing really does make all the difference, maybe someone would care to explain that. (And by "explain" I do not mean "repeat.") Even Tali starts to rethink her prejudice against the Geth (er, ... if you make the right conversational choices in the game).
Can't trust Legion? Uh, you can't really trust anyone in this game, because anyone might have some ulterior motive which they keep you in the dark about. Here's the thing, though. You can trust yourself. More specifically, you can trust Shep. Even more specifically, you can trust Shep's ability to handle tough situations. Think about it. You put Saren and Sovereign in their place, you've handled tons of Geth, many of which (as another poster rightly pointed out) were probably much more of a handful than Legion--and this should have been obvious at first contact with Legion. But now you're worried that a single, human-sized Geth is too big of a risk for your bad self? Interesting. (Oh, and I THINK that, at this point, you can trust Bioware not to make you pay too dearly for trusting potential team members. I don't recall having to replay rafts of missions/assignments as a result of some misguided paragon decision. (Knock on wood.))
Want to get in good with Cerberus? Hmm, it's one thing to say, "Well, Cerberus has a lot of power, and I'd rather be on the winning team." And if that's your bottom line, then ... er ... you're ... just the kind of hero the galaxy needs! (Hope the sarcasm isn't lost on everyone.) Anyway, it's quite another thing to say that Cerberus is the kind of stand up organization that DESERVES whatever you can do for them. Surely nobody here seriously thinks that! And, yeah, I'm familiar with the hey-at-least-they're-a-HUMAN-organization line. But that's just flat-out discrimination, no two ways about it. Saying that you should look out for your own kind won't cut it either. (I'm a lot of kinds. I'm a male, blue-eyed, brown-haired, heterosexual human being with boatloads of bad habits, so does that mean I should give any preferential treatment toward THAT kind of being? I hope not.)
There's another thing worth pointing out. If you pursue a certain conversation line (namely, why's s/he/it wearing your stuff?) deep enough with Legion, it should start to become evident that not all of Legion's decisions are guided by logic alone. S/he/it exhibits a kind of a-rationality that is almost ... (drum roll) ... human. The point here is just that Legion certainly appears not only to possess self-awareness (sapience) but also to possess some brute preferences which aren't just products of means-end reasoning. In short, Legion appears to be significantly more than an artificial intelligence (for better or worse).
Oh yeah, a quick two cents on trusting Cerberus with the big bad Collector base. This is very different from "trusting" Legion on your ship, because you're in a much better position to handle a bad Legion's nastiness. What TIM does with the reaper-generating collector tech is in a big way out of your control, simply because you won't be able to keep track of his minions' research. Besides, even though TIM goes on and on about doing everything he does for the sake of humanity, why would anyone believe that? Maybe TIM is ultimately just looking out for TIM. And maybe, at the end of the day, in some weird way, he's actually more like another Saren. Even if Cerberus is avowedly "Earth-first," that doesn't mean that its leaders and main operatives are. The bottom line: There's just too much evidence suggesting that this is not a guy you should be granting even more power.
Modifié par -M-E-T-A-, 16 février 2010 - 03:23 .
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