User blog comment:The Milkman/End of the Line/@comment-4950455-20120701220030/@comment-4950455-20120702000555

Ah, didn't notice. In that case, rather then vote, I'll just list my pros and cons for each choice (disregarding Refusal, and assuming highest possible EMS):

Destroy

PROS
 * Reapers are destroyed
 * Catalyst is destroyed
 * Catalyst is not vindicated
 * Shepard lives
 * Geth and EDI certainly would have been willing to sacrifice themselves to stop the Reapers
 * Primary advocate throughout the game was my friend and mentor
 * Guaranteed to end the threat permanently

CONS
 * Mass synthetic genocide
 * Major difference between being willing to sacrifice oneself and sacrifice others without giving them a voice in it

Control

PROS
 * Reapers as they were gone
 * Catalyst gone
 * Catalyst not vindicated
 * Nobody dies
 * Controlled Reapers can do an enormous amount of good
 * Shepard continues to exist in some form
 * Ultimate poetic justice for Harbinger

CONS
 * Moral issues of putting that much power into the hands of one person
 * Practical issues of putting that much power into the hands of one person
 * Primary advocate throughout the game was an indoctrinated megalomaniac
 * Not clear how much of Shepard remains in Shepbringer

Synthesis

PROS
 * Nobody dies
 * Everybody gets cool superpowers
 * Galactic civilization leapfrogs ahead thousands of years

CONS
 * Reapers survive
 * Catalyst survives
 * Catalyst is vindicated
 * Moral issues of homogenization
 * Thematic issues of homogenization
 * Shepard is really most sincerely dead
 * Just plain silly from the standpoint of the series' science up to this point

Ultimately, Renegade Shepard chose Destroy, Paragon Shepard chose Control.