ME3: Are the Reapers the Good Guys?
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Considering the reapers said that we don't understand anything really (implying a far deeper and more intricate understanding of the universe challenging our notions of morality), perhaps living in some giant composite where you live practically forever is a pretty good deal. The whole being liquified painfully partly does seem to go a little bit on the evil route but so we are clear the Reapers are not torturing people for anything more than a few seconds nor are they Hitler evil i.e. lets kill all of those people because it looks like fun.
So i would say that reapers enter into the 'less obvious heroism' category of characters meaning probably in the long run what they are doing is best since it is better to be captured, killed quickly and then have your consciousness survive in some super mind rather than go for inevitable war, over population, lack of resources versions of dying which are all notorious slow and memorably awful.
In which case sure i would say the Reapers are the good guys in the same way that Ebola is a good thing for keeping the population down. If we are being pedantic it is true but nothing you can really say out-loud much.
p.s. small plot hole in the whole series, wouldn't people have noticed all of the mining holes and lack of resources which innumerable species would have clearly taken from each planet given how rare life supporting planets are and how much we have fucked up this one. Or maybe intergalactic space aliens are monumentally thick
So i would say that reapers enter into the 'less obvious heroism' category of characters meaning probably in the long run what they are doing is best since it is better to be captured, killed quickly and then have your consciousness survive in some super mind rather than go for inevitable war, over population, lack of resources versions of dying which are all notorious slow and memorably awful.
In which case sure i would say the Reapers are the good guys in the same way that Ebola is a good thing for keeping the population down. If we are being pedantic it is true but nothing you can really say out-loud much.
p.s. small plot hole in the whole series, wouldn't people have noticed all of the mining holes and lack of resources which innumerable species would have clearly taken from each planet given how rare life supporting planets are and how much we have fucked up this one. Or maybe intergalactic space aliens are monumentally thick