User blog comment:Caramellson/Try Honesty?/@comment-1786741-20120913001421/@comment-24174486-20120914144401

1. If the people making that argument actually acknowledge the true nature of the Reapers, then why would they argue that their purpose is hypocritical? That's the entire purpose of the "synthetics killing organics so organics won't be killed by synthetics"—an attempt to argue that the Reapers' purpose is illogical, despite illogically ignoring the true nature of the Reapers.

2. The Catalyst introduces the Destroy choice by saying that it knows Shepard has thought about destroying the Reapers, and it says that Destroy will do nothing to stop future generations from creating new synthetics. Based on its words, it doesn't view Destroy as a poor solution to its "problem"; it views Destroy as not a solution to its problem.