User blog comment:Lancer1289/From Double Didgets to Number Two!/@comment-730941-20101206141230

@Pepoluan: It also doesn't help that Bioware tends to reinforce this dichotomy with the morality system - supporting Cerberus is a Renegade act, which although not implying evil, suggests self-serving motives or a distrust of galactic cooperation. It's notable that while the morality system is meant to be about approaches to situations (win-at-all-costs versus save-every-life), some Renegade choices are clearly spiteful/evil, and some Paragon choices are clearly altruistic and 'good'.

There's a whole essay we could write about morality in gaming, I think it's somewhat unfortunate that the nuances of TIM's position are somewhat lost in the bipolar system of Paragon/Renegade. There's also the question of if the player can ever trust everything we're being told, since we aren't omniscient, and only (most of the time) hear what Shepard does.