User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things, Part II/@comment-98.240.62.123-20121205054745/@comment-4237253-20121205202601

@IronicAtheist

1. I'm fairly certain you did, but whatever.

2. That didn't make sense. Millions have already died. The idea that you can't save everyone has been a huge theme since the first game, where you made that one major desicion.

3. You misunderstand. I didn't mean they prefer you picking Destroy. I mean that the Reapers are the ones who destroy one party to prevent total annihilation. In that way, picking Destroy makes you the equal but opposite manifestation of the Reapers. The Reapers destroy all organics and preserve them, so they don't get destroyed by their creations. By picking Destroy, you do the same thing, but in opposite fashion; you remove the synthetics so they cannot destroy organics.

So really, when you think about it, by picking destroy, you essentially accept the Reapers' philosophy that genocide is necessary to maintain the status quo.