Genocide VS Mass Brainwashing - A Moral Choice

Paradigm wrote:Even free willed robots altogether is risky business. Not to draw implications from fiction, but look at the Mass Effect universe. The Geth, primarily. That's a huge possibility with true sentient free-willed robots/

The above mentioned reminded me of a rather important moral choice in Mass Effect 2. For those of you who haven't played it, it's a space adventure third-person view shooter.

Now let me explain here. In the game, there are Geth, a race of sentient will robots who want to kill Shepherd (Your Character). A crewmate, who is named Legion, is a part of the sentient robot race (Geth), but is part of a small minority within the race that wishes to help Shepherd instead of kill him.

There is a mission that involves infiltrating Geth headquarters and Shepherd reaches a point in which he can basically either set all the enemy Geth to be destroyed or rewrite their programming so that they'll be part of Legion's Geth. (Be friendly with Shepherd and all). They'll never know they were reprogrammed.

So what it amounts to is this:

What's the moral decision in this choice?

Genocide or Brainwashing?

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