User blog comment:Ironreaper/Did Shepard leave Ceberus./@comment-204.210.207.90-20100915194803/@comment-217683-20100916024840

Alliance hates Cerberus on principle, eh? Must be a pretty flimsy principle, for so many people to ditch the Alliance for Cerberus (which, let us not forget, was once part of the Alliance.

Now, please do me a favor and back up some claims here. "He [The Illusive Man] has wiped out similar colonies for studies himself." Really? What similar colonies (i.e. colonies with populations in the thousands or hundreds of thousands) has TIM wiped out? "Was his motives for saving Shepard as altruistic as Shepard's were in saving the crew? No." Really? Saving the human race isn't altruistic? I'll admit, the Illusive Man didn't save Shepard's life in exactly the same manner, down to the details that Shepard used to save the crew members, but not sure that matters. Is your life any less saved if someone uses money instead of bullets to save it? Nope. Last time I checked, it was not.

Your second paragraph was entirely speculative, no real need to go over it other than to point that fact out. Assuming that "It's a suicide mission, he wouldn't send his most loyal" is quite the assumption. Fanatical devotion, btw, is generally a trait you want in people you're sending on a suicide mission. Not people with no real loyalty to the group. And the statement about how Gardner is loyal "because they get the job done, not for any political reason"? Why does that matter? At all?