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CyricZ posted...

"It was the answer at the time" is the constantly used justification.

It's hard to decide whether I "agree" with something that we don't necessarily have 100% of the personal context of the time.

Of course I cured the genophage. Again, best decision at the time given the threat of the Reapers, and I believed the krogan as a people could turn the corner.

But unilaterally deciding that a race of people is inevitably unable to coexist with others no matter the circumstances is not something I agree with.

Especially after the fact of them having been uplifted specifically for their ability to reproduce and get violent.

I do appreciate that it's truly the greatest question of Mass Effect, moreso than the quarian/geth question.

Didn't they have the opportunity of peaceful co-existence? After the Rachni Wars they were given their own system of planets that they could expand and build on, only instead of just doing that they expanded onto worlds that already had occupants from other allied civilizations, wiped them out, and kept on growing.

The Krogan had several opportunities to turn their behavior around. They had that opportunity after they scorched their own homeworld, they had that opportunity after they were uplifted by the Salarians, they had that opportunity after they won the Rachni wars, they had that opportunity after when they were gifted spoils from war, and they had that opportunity when the Citadel was begging for them to stop their encroachments onto allied planets. I cured the genophage too because it was right in the moment, but how do you assign blame to the rest of the galaxy that tried everything they could to peacefully co-exist with a species that didn't want to?