User blog comment:The Milkman/Reaper Logic/@comment-5030249-20120424030042

Actually, I got no problems with the Reaper origins. Scientists say at a certain point, a civilization advanced enough reaches full enlightenment. I post that at a certain point enough enlightenment is reached that said Civilization is so full of itself it sees nothing that it does as wrong and that everything it does will be good.

Look up John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata. Basically a race of intergalactic do-gooders go about modifying races out of an enlightened sense of superiority and causes all sorts of hell down the road. You got a race of Intelligent Dinosaur centaurs that rampage throughout the Galaxy slaughtering and eating people. You got an Galactic Society built mostly on slavery. Its a Dystopia built from Good Intentions.

They could have made a political statement about Enlightenment without Humility, Intelligence without Doubt and the Desire to Control Out of Ignorance, Fear and Arrogance. And that the only option really is to let Chaos work.

Instead, we got, 'We didn't want Synthetics wiping our Organics so we made an army of Synthetics to wipe our Organics so Organics don't create Synthetics to wipe out organics.