User blog comment:Kd82/ME3 Ending: what just happened?/@comment-3054777-20120702123040/@comment-24174486-20120824005900

Although it's likely that Saren would have advocated the Synthesis choice, that is not necessarily what Saren sought. Saren thought that the only way to stop the Reapers from wiping out all organic life was to prove that organics were worth leaving alive, even if it meant living as slaves to the Reapers. Hence his quote "Is submission not preferrable to extinction?"