User blog comment:Ygrain/The ending: there MUST be something more to it/@comment-4888286-20120619094624/@comment-86.167.180.61-20120622155518

You're reading the IT wrong. It's an indoctrination ATTEMPT. Choose destroy, you wake up on Earth and pressumably have to figure out a way of destroying the Reapers for good.

Or, let's say we go with your belly aching, it would appear that EVERYONE forgets what Edi says to Shepard. Machines can and will lie to preserve themselves.