User blog comment:Legionwrex/Genophage good or bad./@comment-217683-20100920230756/@comment-2256917-20100921172017

Well, the Japanese are human beings, whereas the krogan are not. And the limited info on the Rebellions suggest that the krogan were in a much superior position, offensively, than the Empire in the summer of 1945. And the latter had already offered conditional terms of surrender earlier in the year. And etc. Buuuuut your analogy is still apt in that both weapons harmed even non-combatants in great numbers, both led to surrender, both were taken as an alternative to continual, bloody fighting, and so forth. Also for the reason that Lancer gave, in that both are disputable (and ME 2 gives the player ample occasion to dispute). - That said, I agree, something was necessary to stop the krogan from wiping out or enslaving the galactic races. On the other side, ME 2 presents krogan characters who find a way to view the circumstances produced by the genophage as potentially beneficial to the krogan (Wrex rises to the occasion to develop--foresight, and therewith a more united krogan; Okeer sees it as an occasion to show magnanimity; the Shaman sees it, and the preceding nuclear holocaust, as occasion for the krogan to gain the necessary strength and wisdom which they lacked).