User blog comment:GeorgePowell/How do you think Mass Effect 3 will end?/@comment-2250460-20110704032909/@comment-743796-20110704140150

To me, genocide refers to the extermination of one or a few collective races, much like what occurred in the Holocaust and the earlier Armenian Genocide. What the Reapers are doing far supersedes this.... it's a galactic termination of sentient life.... and it is rather indiscriminate when you examine it further. This could be related to the Holocene extinction event, where humans were responsible (over a period of 10,000 BC-present era) for the mass extinctions of many species, including the Mammoth. Do you call that genocide? I most definitely would not, because like the Reaper assault, it's not just a few species that are targeted, it's all sentient existence as we know it.