User blog comment:Arbington/My thoughts on the central theme of the series./@comment-2250460-20120726070840/@comment-4950455-20120726072054

I honestly think just the opposite. It's probably the most wide-sweeping of choices, and an awful lot of people find the morality of forcing it on everybody questionable - but at the same time it leaps galactic well-being ahead thousands of years.

That said, I'm not sure if Synthesis was meant to fit into this binary scheme at all.