User blog comment:Ygrain/The ending: there MUST be something more to it/@comment-69.125.110.61-20120618193157/@comment-4950455-20120619043248

''and above all - because this is the choice that starbrat tries hard to convince you not to choose. ''

I've actually become increasingly dubious about whether Destroy actually affects all synthetics or not recently because of just that. It's not that I believe in the indoctrination theory or any other "hidden" meaning to the ending, but it does seem like the Catalyst is curiously evasive about Destroy as opposed to the other options, where it's pretty straightforward.