User blog comment:FirstDrellSpectre/My wishlist about Mass Effect: Next/@comment-4452849-20140803144133/@comment-25400375-20141031200019

Lawson is listed as a complete monster on TV Tropes. Saren and TIM may not have been able to properly redeem themselves, but they did the next best thing. Killed themselves so they wouldn't be used by the reapers, who are more like mechanical Eltricht abominations who see the evil they do as part of a cosmic calling or whatever.