User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Bioware is really starting to pi$$ me off.../@comment-4043223-20120310185444/@comment-3325589-20120311034457

Pardon me if I'm misreading your comment, but what does the extinction of sentient life have to do with Shepard's actions in the ending? The Catalyst/Starchild explicitly states that whatever virtue the cycle of extinction may once have held, it's now hopelessly broken. None of Shepard's choices seem to result in the extinction of anything other than the Reapers and Geth (and even then, only in one ending).