User blog:Legionwrex/Why Destroy is the worst ending (besides refusal).

Many people on this wiki seem to be convinced Destroy is some great ending, or rather that it is the best of a group of mediocre endings. This blogs purpose it to provide counter arguements in hopes of changing how people view this truly horrible ending.

Community Bias
In my first point I will explain why it seems so many people like Destroy, or rather why a good majority like it. If you ask most people they will give yo some supposedly deep answer about how "It keeps everything intact" or something else along those lines, however the real answer is much more simplistic; Shepard lives and the Reapers are destroyed.

The more important of these two that influences people to pick this ending the most is Shepard's survival, so I will start with this. Many people have developed a sort of attachment to their Shepard's, which is fine and all, except for when your attachment becomes an obsession that screws a good part of the galaxy over i.e. Synthetics.

The other reason is the Reapers Destruction. This is the only ending where the Reapers are actually destroyed, as such, fans with petty vendettas will often have this influence them to pick this ending, however if this is the reason you picked Destroy I urge you to reconsider as this is a all around bad excuse for picking it. In Synthesis you render the Reapers obsolete, surely that is a bigger slap in the face to them.

Destruction of the geth, EDI, and other synthetics
This is a big reason why Destroy is a bad ending; all synthetics are destroyed. Well, aside from the major hardships organics will now face,lets look at the other problems.

Many people say the geth would willingly sacrifice themselves to stop the Reapers. I beg to differ. The geth have clearly shown they will go to great lengths to protect themselves. They have allied with the Reapers, and Legion was willing to kill Shepaard, knowing full well s/he is probably the only way to save the galaxy, saying "Who are you to decide the fate of my species", is not that what you do in Destroy, decide the fate of the geth. Ask yourself this, if a geth had a Sniper Rifle and had Shepard in it's sights right before Shepard was about to choose Destroy, do you think it would shoot...... yeah, thats what I thought.

Also, the geth have at this point become fully sentient, so destroying them is no different from destroying any other organic race.

It doesn't solve the problem
This is probably the biggest problem with Destroy; the underline problem of synthetics vs organics remains. Right now I'm sure some of you are already typing a comment saying something along the lines of "There is no evidence of a synthetic vs organic conflict" or "that star-brat is crazy" well like it or not there is a synthetic vs organic conflict, Bioware put it in there, it doesn't matter if there has been no evidence for it, it's there, deal with it.

Destroy doesn't solve this problem, rather, it solves the effect of the problem i.e. Reapers. Sure the galaxy might be peaceful now, but as the Catalyst states, future generations will make machines of their own and the conflict will start again.

So yeah, Destroy basically screws future generations over. I mean at least in control you are part of the way there to solving this problem with peace with the geth, and if the conflict does come up again you have the Reapers to stop it, but no, in Destroy there are no Reapers to help; the galaxy is defenseless aside from one heavily damaged fleet.

Conclusion
So there you have it. I did my best to try and show why Destroy is not a good ending. I hope you will keep an open mind and consider what I have written, maybe I will even convince some or you.

Best Regards,

Legionwrex