User blog comment:Legionwrex/Why Destroy is the worst ending (besides refusal)./@comment-213828-20120714173630

Also, I don't think the Catalyst is lying. I think it believes what it says is true, and that it's a well intended extremist. It's like Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Shadows from "Batman." They believed they had to destroy Gotham (organic civilizations) to save humanity (organic life) from the corruption (synthetics) it was breeding. They even used the same analogy the Catalyst does, comparing themselves to a cleansing fire. And Batman's stance was that there were enough good people left in Gotham to make it worth saving and that it deserved another chance. That's what the Destroy ending is all about. It's saying the galaxy deserves a second chance to pull itself together.