User blog comment:The Milkman/Reaper Logic/@comment-4558124-20120424235150

"Another point: What exactly are the Reapers accomplishing? They're Synthetics who aim to kill all intelligent Organics. What is the difference between them and the Reapers? Is there any guarantee that we can't beat them? Because we have. By creating the Reapers, all God Kid accomplishes is the death of Organics by different Synthetics. Good job."

This isn't exactly correct; the Reapers don't aim to kill all intelligent organic species, just the ones advanced enough to create artificial intelligence - which, if we assume the Reapers' logic is correct (as corroborated partially by Vendetta), will inevitably kill off all organic life in the galaxy, both advanced and non-advanced.

Also, the Reaper's don't just kill sentient organics - they preserve them as machines, keeping them "alive" in a sense. It's not really the same as just erasing them from existence.

Think of the Reapers this way: when a fire burns through a forest, it kills loads of plants and animals; however, it also destroys the big, old and dead trees in the forest, allowing the younger ones to grow in the new sunlight. Without the fires, the forest would become overgrown and lots of plants in the undergrowth would be choked out and die.