User blog comment:SilencedSkies/The Illusive Man: Good, Evil or just bad writing?/@comment-260563-20120730041142/@comment-4950455-20120730091600

I'm not going to debate this further until I know what Holy Galactic Emperor actually meant with that comparison, because I may have misunderstood.

Although one key difference is that Cerberus, unlike the UNSC, is not any kind of legitimate human authority. They're a rogue organization, whose efforts to defend humanity come without any kind of real responsibility to it.