User blog comment:Legionwrex/Genophage good or bad./@comment-217683-20100920230756/@comment-2256917-20100921174619

You're right Legion, I didn't really answer the blog's question. The ME universe writes the Rebellion situation such that (a) the krogan "rebellion" was from a galactic federation that was gracious to the krogan, granting them more rights than other members, and not a tyrannical order (i.e. the rebellion was unjustified), (b) the krogan were already attempting galactic conquest, (c) the krogan were actually approaching victory, even after the turians became involved, and (d) the krogan were willing to destroy and did ruin whole planets and all living things on them to gain victory. This means that the wickedness of the opponent was inventive enough, and the situation was urgent enough, to render the development of a means to decimate him necessary. The means employed by the turians were, at least, not as globally destructive of the krogan as the anti-turian means employed by the krogan. -- As for the question of "rights", see above, (a). Also note that in the games, the positive "rights" of the krogan have been restricted or withdrawn because the krogan demonstrated their inability to observe and live by what used to be called the "law of nature" (the law governing rational beings, be it in one political society, or amongst several).