User blog comment:RS Kossery/Your thoughts on the Illusive Man/@comment-4579012-20111105230323/@comment-4579012-20111107193348

@ Ironspear - Wow. Harsh, and needlessly so. It was a (admittedly quite gentle) joke at my own expense. I even used a winking smiley to make this very clear. Never mind.

What I meant was; yes, I think he's scum, and I think it's because his kind of morality can very easily be found in some people in real life. However, he is an archetype; I am not. My point about your initial comment was that I wouldn't take some 'moral high ground' and try to 'rise above it' - which I assumed from the tone was your point. I would - very happily - shoot him several times right in his racist face. What's more, I'd feel highly vindicated in doing so. I'd happily kill him and (figuratively) burn his organisation to the ground; just as he would destroy others who stood in his way.

There is nothing ironic in this at all - it's (as a wise man once said) Hegelian Dialectics. It is also the point of the Illusive Man - he's there to repulse people. Again, there's no irony here - as you point out yourself, he's reviled for his atrocities and lack of ethics. Morally, however, by wanting to destroy him because I disagree with and oppose him, I am not superior to him - maybe a bit more honourable about it, but that's all. Sad, but true.

I like the idea or appropriating Cerberus though. I suppose I'd have to dismantle it quite quickly though - sponsored by xenophobes as it is.