User blog comment:Markurion/Extended Cut or Prolonged torture?/@comment-4950606-20120406181240/@comment-998122-20120409153739

@Phantomdasilva and Lockexceles34 Also not to mention....if the problem is organics developing synthetic races that will eventually destroy them every single time, then....why allow the organic races to develop that kind of technology at all? Why not wipe out ALL of the races, including the ones that haven't developed space travel yet so they won't become a problem in the future? They wouldn't need to preserve the races as Reapers if the races weren't in danger of creating a synthetic race in the first place. I suppose you could say they want advanced races to form new Reapers instead of primitive ones. But if that's the case, then they're deliberately putting the organic races at risk for their own needs. So....they don't really have much of a leg to stand on (so to speak) in the whole 'we're doing what's best for the galaxy' stance.