User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things, Part II/@comment-24174486-20121204032642/@comment-24174486-20121204034652

Regardless of all of the other options you've chosen, whether you've killed everyone and everything you could or avoided genocides at all costs, whether you're a selfless Paragon or ruthless Renegade, you invariably want to choose Destroy. And preferring any of the other options means you're indoctrinated.

One has to wonder if IT supporters have considered how the Reapers use the aspirations of those they indoctrinate to manipulate them. With Saren, they tricked him into thinking that he would be able to convince them not to wipe out galatic civilization; with the Illusive Man, they played on his desire to elevate humanity's position in the galaxy. If Shepard would invariably want to choose Destroy, why don't the Reapers use that desire to trick Shepard into doing the wrong thing while thinking that their actions will result in the destruction of the Reapers?

(That is why I see Refusal as a possibly-indoctrinated ending—what we're presented with is Shepard giving a speech about the galaxy deciding their own fate and dying free when that's completely the opposite of what Shepard's refusal to use the Crucible does.)