Poll: Best Mass Effect Moral Conundrum

[Dango]

Definately the Geth mission. You're either killing them or essentially brain-washing them.

Neither of them take the moral high ground.

This.

I didn't play the game, so let me ask:
What was your decision and how long did you ponder on it?

Because I am extremely interested now. xD

I don't consider either more moral, but I chose to brain-wash them. Even if it isn't their choice, they get to live and be happy, and no matter what that's sounds to me like a better alternative than death.

EDIT: It took me around 10 minutes to come to that decision.

 

[Yureina]

I'm going to go with the Geth mission as well. There is no real right answer to that one, I think. I do hope, however, that the decision players make regarding that might have an important part to play in ME2.

 

[D Moness]

I sat and thought about the Geth mission for awhile, pretty much as described by Extra Credits...
But that decision wasn't half as difficult for me as the Rachni.

The rachni queen was no trouble at all for me. The second she asked to be freed i wanted to do that.

The Geth Heretics was also less of a problem for me. Yes I brainwashed them so the followed the rest of the geth again. Why did i do that. When the geth became sentient the Quarian wre using them as worker/slaves mostly they wanted more then that. In the end the Geth won. Now there comes a reaper promising them something. Some Geth believe that (in end end start to worship the reaper(old gods) what gets the reaper very annoyed). So in the end the heretic Geth end up as more or less fighting slaves for the reapers. The one thing they fought for against the Quarians they forfeited when joining the reapers.

Most trouble for me was the reaper/collector's base

 

[Mordereth]

Destroy/Rewrite the Geth?

The only thing you're doing is reverting them to their original state- Saren corrupted them.


I'm personally all about the Ashley/Kaiden choice.

Sure, Kaiden was useless/stupid but having to let him die seriously pissed me off. I'd restarted the whole mission just to get the persuasion skill required to save Rex, then iJust have to let Kaiden die?

 

[Sharalon]

Genophage cure and the geth rewriting were excellent, but i was suprised that people voted for Ashley/Kaidan since thats not really a moral choice is it? :s Pick one of them, thats a choice, but not really a moral choice.

 

[D_987]

Are you fricking kidding me? The only real choice I faced was the Collector base. I'm a hardcore paragon, foregoing any renegade action, no matter how easy it would make things, but this was a real problem

Why couldn't you have preserved the base but given the information to the council?

 

[loc978]

I sat and thought about the Geth mission for awhile, pretty much as described by Extra Credits...
But that decision wasn't half as difficult for me as the Rachni.

The rachni queen was no trouble at all for me. The second she asked to be freed i wanted to do that.

I had the same initial reaction, but then had a niggling little doubt claw its way up to the surface.
What if she's lying? What are the possible repercussions?
Even assuming she's not... what if, despite her best intentions, her children expand beyond her control and the Rachni wars happen again?

...In the end, I pushed the doubt back down, not wanting to be party to finishing the genocide that the Krogan started.
...but that doubt is still there...

 

[drisky]

Save Destroy Reaper Base both had something to gain and lose and its the choice that I most feel will effect ether choice with both a distinct positive and negative later on.

Worst is Mordith/Samara, I can't think of a single logical reason to take the sex death serial killer that you have to lie to your whole crew about over someone of equal power that has already proven trustworthy.

 

[Lexodus]

Genophage cure and the geth rewriting were excellent, but i was suprised that people voted for Ashley/Kaidan since thats not really a moral choice is it? :s Pick one of them, thats a choice, but not really a moral choice.

Well it depends whether you have one as your love interest. If you pick that one, it's a selfish choice of letting one person die because you're boning the other, but if you don't then you have to live with the guilt that you killed your lover.

 

[Light 086]

I dunno... I liked them all, don't know which is my fav. They all had their comedic moments, kinda like playing god without being insanely powerful. That being said I have 4 characters: 2 male, 2 female, with each one having paragon and the other renegade. Although I'll admit that I never gave it much thought, because I thought it wouldn't really matter(most games just brush it aside like it never happened when a sequel comes out). I'm glad the second game showed that they do.

 

[The Bucket]

Genophage cure and the geth rewriting were excellent, but i was suprised that people voted for Ashley/Kaidan since thats not really a moral choice is it? :s Pick one of them, thats a choice, but not really a moral choice.

Thats what I thought too, less about "What is right and wrong in this situation" and more "Whom are you planning on boneing". Or maybe that was just me.

I voted Geneophage. I was a Paragon on my first playthrough, so I voted to keep it, but i'm still torn. It could really go either way if the Krogan had opportunity to expand again, and there would be an unbelievable amount of hate to the other species.
I really liked how ME1 seemed to be arguing anti geneophage with Wrex having the strongest opinion, and ME2 had Mordin making his points (It was a nice touch how he freely admitted the other species culpability in causing the problem, and he didn't have any genuine hate for the Krogan).

 

[WorldCritic]

Save/Destroy Council. I wanted to stay on my paragon path, but I really hated those bastards.

 

[ABLb0y]

Save/Destroy the Rachni. On the one hand, i didn't want to be responsible for genocide, on the other, have you seen how tough they are to defeat? Btw, saving Ash/Kaiden was the easiest. Ash was obviously a racist (Well, racist against Asari) and she was getting in the way of me and Liara.

 

[D Moness]

I had the same initial reaction, but then had a niggling little doubt claw its way up to the surface.
What if she's lying? What are the possible repercussions?
Even assuming she's not... what if, despite her best intentions, her children expand beyond her control and the Rachni wars happen again?

...In the end, I pushed the doubt back down, not wanting to be party to finishing the genocide that the Krogan started.
...but that doubt is still there...

My problem is i do not wanna be responsible for the extinction of any species if it is avoidable. Yes they are potentially a very dangerous species(so is the krogan) but why judge(and sentence to death) a sentient being for something that happened before it was even born. I believe in second chances.

 

[Novania]

When saving Ashley over Carth- i mean Kaiden....
DIE CARTH!!!

 

[cystemic]

i think they kinda ruined the whole thing by having paragon or renegade points awarded for each decision, i mean how is it morally ambiguous if you clearly say, this will give you good points and this bad. otherwise id have to say the geth heretic decision in the second one, followed closely by ash/kaidan and then save or not save the council (I actually let the pompous assholes die first time around and in the second game i saved them so they'd reinstate me)

 

[mexicola]

Definitely Legion's loyalty mission, that's pretty much the only place in the game where I had to stop and ask myself what would be the best road to take.

 

[Novania]

i think they kinda ruined the whole thing by having paragon or renegade points awarded for each decision, i mean how is it morally ambiguous if you clearly say, this will give you good points and this bad. otherwise id have to say the geth heretic decision in the second one, followed closely by ash/kaidan and then save or not save the council (I actually let the pompous assholes die first time around and in the second game i saved them so they'd reinstate me)

I saved them so I could tell them to kiss my ass in the second game

 

[Irriduccibilli]

I thought that the decision wether you should keep or destroy the Collector base was a pretty hard decision. Keeping it would surely help alot in fighting the Reapers when they come, and you know they are coming, but you dont know what the illusive man really will use it for. Destroying the base would surely make it alot harder to defeat the reapers, but you wouldnt sacrifice the soul of the human race. That was definitly the hardest decision for me to make, because you know there is going to be a third game, and you know the decisions you make in ME2 will have an impact in ME3.