User blog comment:The Milkman/End of the Line/@comment-4504019-20120701210351/@comment-4950455-20120701213002

I agree that Refuse is sort of selfish. Every time I see it, I just hear something along the lines of this little conversation:

Hackett: Shepard. the fleet's getting slaughtered out here. Hurry up and fire the Crucible!

Shepard: No, sir! I'm Proving A Point to Biow - the glowing blue kid! We're all going to die even though I can prevent that easily, but darnit we'll die FREE!

Hackett: ...

I mean, really. A lot of the objections to Synthesis stem from the morality of making a choice like that for everyone in the galaxy. Refusal is just the same, except it's even worse since you're not just altering all life, you're condemning it to death just because you want to prove something.