User blog comment:Supergodzilla118/Justification of the Genophage/@comment-4452849-20140808135014

It was necessary to curb their expansion, but they shouldn't have let it last for almost 1,500 years and instead should have looked for reformers like Wrex in the interim. Then again the salarians who uplifted them should have tried to both arm the adult krogan while teaching the younger ones a thing or two about self-restraint and cooperation. The fact they haven't adopted a known alien non-interference clause throughout their history is most unbecoming.