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So you have the choices. Perhaps you could give a fourth choice of not using it, but it would mean that the Reapers simply finish the cycle. The whole game is the "bad ending", it's not a winnable war, the catastrophy has already happened. Even if the Reapers lose the one battle it would be like America "losing" the Vietnam war.
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Honestly, I actually would have preferred that ending to the one we got. I've said all along I wasn't expecting a sunshine and rainbows happy ending, and I would have been completely ok if the Crucible didn't work as expected (or the organic beings of this cycle didn't fully understand how to use it) and the Reapers won anyway.
I reject the Synthesis ending. Why should one person, Shepard, decide that every organic being in the galaxy should have its DNA rewritten and be merged with machine intelligence? The implications of that decision are far too huge for one person to make in the heat of the moment.
I also reject the Control ending. Everything I've been shown previously in the ME series has taught me that cooperating with the Reapers in any way is a Bad Idea (TM). It didn't work for Saren; it didn't work for The Illusive Man. Why should I assume it will be any different for Shepard?
So that leaves only the Destroy ending, but this also makes no sense. Why would choosing this option destroy all synthetic life in the galaxy? Aren't the Geth and EDI nothing more than complicated computer hardware and software code? Does this not imply that
all computer equipment would be destroyed, not just AIs (i.e. the Crucible triggers a massive, galaxy-wide EMP)?