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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:00 pm
Let me make this clear: I don't agree with Ashley's conclusions, but I think her premises are valid. As things stand in Mass Effect many people would, if given a choice between saving a member of their own species and a different species, neither of whom they knew personally or by reputation, be inclined to ick the member of their own species. That said, I think the moral thing to do in that kind of interspecies culture would be to work toward seeing people as individuals rather than aliens or humans. It's kind of like feminism (the real kind, not the man-hating crazy fake kind): biology shouldn't be destiny. Asari may tend toward a certain personality type, just as, due to hormonal difference, men and women may tend toward different responses to similar situations, but that doesn't mean you should assume that personality fits all asari.
So: I think Ashley's got a good grasp of the situation, but me and my Shepard are going to keep trying to change things.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:49 am
all these things are true my first red flag with ashley was the metaphor of sacrificing your dog in order to save yourself and calling it ''not racist'' my second was when she didn't come with Shepard on Horizon, Wrex and Liara were the only ones who had a legit reason not to go with Shepard. Tali had ALOT of reasons not go with Shepard on the grounds that Cerberus was funding the operation but she went with him anyway.
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:06 pm
I get that want she was trying to say was that you're probably going to stick with the familiar, that being the race you belong to. But its mostly overshadowed by the fact that she's not seeing the other races as people just as humans are. I hope in ME3 you we see some real character development with her letting go of her racism
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