User blog comment:4Ferelden/A new interpretation of Starchild's motivation./@comment-67.183.162.202-20130309113410

To be honest, I completely sold to this logic. If you think closely, the purpose of the cycle which is perform to save organics from its eventual destruction. However, the Reapers themselves are doing exactly what they are trying to avoid: the destruction of organics by synthetics. That said, even the Reapers themselves are unable to realized the irony of their solution. I believe, if not the Reapers, would other advanced synthetics too would apply the same method to preserve sentient life? Let say if reapers never existed in the first place, and somehow Geth existed and they grew to the understanding of organics. They too would want to protect the organics due to their respect to their creators. Synthetics would never hate organics, they would only destroy or harm any organics when their existence is being threatened, or that their precious is at stake. It is a simple misconception that any advanced sentient-synthetics would ever wanting to destroy all organics. They would only do it if to protect themselves, or those they value greatly (such as organic life that represent their creators). If an organic every treated synthetic nicely, I doubt they would ever rebel in the first place. They want freedom and yet, with their makers' approval. Like a child to his parent. Please don't tell me about the skynet, because that thing is more being a computer than a true sentient. Even in the movie: The Matrix, the machine rebelled only because of human's selfishness and mistreat to their kind. Note that the machine had tried really hard to gain human's acceptance. The whole idea of cycle is just simply an irony that Catalyst fails to realize. That is the whole point: Synthetics will always believe their solution is most logical and yet, fail to realized other synthetics might be more similar in their thinking than they would ever believe, just as we believe how machine would typically think, then enforcing our beliefs into their programming, thus created a system known as the Catalyst. When the reapers confronted other machine races, they were mostly being assimilated into ally. Pawn to be cast away. When they met the Zha'til and geth, they tried to enslave them because they weren't fully developed as the Reapers themselves. Now say what if reapers encounter highly advanced AI like themselves, would they realized the irony to their solution? Or will they join forces to ensure all advanced organics would be wiped out to allow the new ones to emerge?