User blog comment:The Milkman/The Next Effect/@comment-5607736-20121128153922/@comment-10823020-20130720034306

One of the many issues with the destroy option is that the galaxy is damned. Especially earth. In mass effect only the relays allow FTL travel. Without FTL you are basically stuck unless you plan on napping to the nearest star for hundreds of years. Now on earth we have billions of humans and aliens who came for the final battle. Earth is already decimated, add a massive population of aliens and humans who only stopped hating each other due to the reapers and you have a definitive end to life on earth. Even if war didn't claim them all, overpopulation, resource consumption... And many more surely would.