User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-5038903-20120601202056/@comment-1388547-20120602050450

Or if you played Renegade, but decided to go for the reputation check and passed it. It does work better from a role-playing standpoint with a Renegade character, though -- willingness to sacrifice anything to achieve victory is a very Renegade thing. I regret sacrificing the geth, but there is no way at all I'm going to let the Reapers survive. They are just too dangerous, and I don't trust them to remain non-threatening forever if they aren't destroyed immediately. If I have to kill the geth to keep the rest of the galaxy's inhabitants safe, I'll do it.