User blog comment:Ygrain/EDI and the geth: their purpose in the story?/@comment-5337704-20120727095430/@comment-4950455-20120727203109

I wouldn't say that's a good analogy, because Destroy is not your only option. There's other ways to "cure" those people.

And honestly, if you come right down to it, I don't like Synthesis because I find the morality of forcing such a huge change upon the galaxy, without anyone else having a say, to be very questionable.