User blog comment:Chaoswolf75/What's the hardest choice you've had to made throughout the series?/@comment-83.253.173.103-20120711205220/@comment-3325589-20120712102136

I found it an easy choice, but for a different reason: pretty much every individual or group that has worked with intact Reaper tech, from some unlucky miners, to a team of Cerberus scientists, to seemingly brave and indomitable individuals like Benezia, Amanda Kenson, and Saren Arterius, has ended up its slave. While TIM makes a compelling argument for driving forward humanity's technological evolution, he gives no thought to any sort of safeguard to ensure that he can control the Reaper technology, rather than vice versa. If it had only been a matter of dishonoring the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people (which seems the main sticking point for Shep's squad mates), I would've saved the base, but that's not the central issue.

And of course, ME3 vindicates this point of view, proving that TIM didn't even need the Collector base to get himself indoctrinated.