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Originally Posted by Rather Dashing
The analogy works. Just saying "Killing to avoid killing? That's stupid!" is completely idiotic without further clarification. We hunt deer to keep them from assured self-destruction, and that follows the exact same logic being lampooned here.
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Arguments from analogy are inherently flawed because no matter how similar two different situations may seem, they are never exactly the same. I.E. we hunt deer to ostensibly keep them from dying from overpopulation, reapers hunt organic life to keep them from being killed by synthetics.
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You don't need a single race of synthetics, just multiple races of sentient organics. Organic species continue along the same curve, eventually make sentient synthetics, and incite robot apocalypse. The Mass Relays make sure that the Reapers know where everybody is roughly around the time they make these robots because, you know, once you control the trade network, you control the civilization. Otherwise, you'd just have organic species after organic species being destroyed by the genre they inhabit.
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This still doesn't address how what the reapers do is in any way different from what synthetics would do otherwise. They wipe out all organic life advanced enough to potentially be capable of wiping themselves out. Low-tech civilizations would be spared either way, and the cycle would continue in the same way regardless of whether the reapers were there or not.