The litmus test

Maybe so, but would they accept having their dna changed? I wouldn't.
I would guess by having the crucible docked with the Citadel.

No matter how someone words it, I see the green as being forced no matter if the thing say's the organics are ready.

According to Leviathan, the crucible has never been completed in any previous cycle.

Because a machine says the organics are ready doesn't mean they are. It says that because it knows that if Shepard chooses the green, it will survive whereas with the other two, the thing is replaced or destroyed. It butters up the green to survive. The green works in its favor.

There is proof. Your dislike of it doesn't negate it's existence. You are using the same logic as climate change deniers, anti vaxxers, flat earthers, etc.

You are using the same logic as climate change deniers, flat earth theorists, anti vaxxers and people who think the holocaust didn't happen as well as countless other small and large facts. There is plenty of data in the game not to mention it being the clear intent of the writers to have it be so. But because you can't see the curving of the Earth or because it snowed in the winter. Then it isn't definitive proof that either are true.

You can argue about ultimate truths or the word of god in our universe till your blue in the face. But in a fiction universe created by a person or team of writers there are ultimate truths and their words are the words of god in that universe.  Vegeta goes from a genocidal mad man who doesn't care about anything or anyone to a caring and loving father (in his own way) with a grudging respect for Goku because Akira Toriyama says so and his word is the word of god in the Dragon Ball universe because he creates the story.  Just like the new transformation for Vegeta and Goku in Super is called Super Sayian Blue even though that is the stupidest name never. Because Akira says that is the name of the transformation and so the ultimate truth and word of god for that fictional universe is laided out and that transformation will now and forever be known as Super Sayian Blue.

No, you don't provide proof.  Ever.  You state your opinion and have such an overinflated ego that you believe that constitutes proof.  I never made any claims about whether or not the Reapers have souls.  What I have said is those motherfuckers need to die for what they did.  End of story.  I get that you feel different but that's your problem not mine.

I have pointed out time and time again the slave like conditions of AI in Council space. I have pointed out time and time again the Geth's complete willingness to do what ever it takes to survive including committing near genocide if that is what it takes to keep themselves safe. I have pointed out time and time again the hatred and fear of synthetic life that organic life has.  To the point it prompted the Quarians to start a war that nearly wiped them out then literally every major power positioning tons of troops at every relay in an effort to stop any potential attack.  The obsession over regaining control of anything they lost and their servants or wiping them out for their betrayal more then evident when the Quarians launch a full scale invasion against the Geth the moment they think they are capable of taking them on.


That the Geth despite being the short bus version of Synthetic life due to the limitations of their inter-dependency was still capable in a 2 year time frame build up a massive fleet on par if not exceeding with any single Organic race. And when the Reaper upgrade is forcibly distributed by the Reapers and possibly later by Legion which upgrades the Geth from the short bus synthetic life to fully realized synthetic life without crippling dependency on each other to understand that 1+1=2.  That existing fleet absolutely wrecks the ever loving hell out of the Quarians.  And if given more time would have been capable of building an even larger fleet and would have been able to take out each race one by one if they so felt threatened enough.  Not just in pure arms but in other methods like dropping asteroids on planets wiping out all life on it because the Geth or any synthetic life doesn't need a garden world to survive.  This was shown as it was said that due to the war Rannoch was rendered almost uninhabitable due to the toxic and radioactive weapons used in the Morning War. But the Geth lived there  no problem choosing to willingly rather then any real need to move into space stations and live there.

All of this completely justifies the fear that synthetic life will surpass and potentially wipe out organic life. Which in turn will create aggressive movements and attempts to restrain and restrict synthetic life.  As was shown with Javik and the Protheans as well as the heavy restrictions of AI research/ban on it as well as Quarians aggressive actions to prevent the Geth from evolving any further out of their control.  This activity also justifies aggressive actions on synthetic side as well given the reaction of the AI created as a gambling program that reacted with fear of being found by Shepard.

The capabilities of the Geth would only be stopped by the combined forces of all other organic races uniting together as shown with Protheans. How ever that is only a possibility because of the Mass Relay Network that only exists because of the Reapers. Which would mean no uniting of the races at least not on a massive scale if any contact has been made in the first place.  Putting almost every situation like the Morning War and the Quarians lost to the short bus synthetics. Without mass relays if they even survived the escape and travel they would spread the news of the evil AI overlord attacking and killing innocent Quarians for no reason.  Which would perpetuate the conflict.  Either by launching counter attacks against Geth or by simply waiting until they came into contact with them and attacking them then. Which is much like what the Turians did to the Alliance when they saw them messing around with Mass Relays. Didn't try peaceful contact they saw them being a potential threat and wiped them out and almost went into full scale war with humanity.  Only the Asari stepped into calm things down and such a set up would not exist here.

Then you're already wrong. AI are illegal in Council space. If you recall, EDI was created by a terrorist organization and later she was passed off as a VI that aided him because of vrolik syndrome. Humans attempted to create AI illegally (ME: Revelation). The AI on the Citadel was created privately for criminal activity (and also was trying to go to the geth but attacked first either way). And, finally, the quarians were removed from having any privileges in Council due to the creation of the geth (including NOT giving any aid to the quarians). I won't deny that the Admiralty Board of the geth are stupid but the geth had recently been known to attack humans and turn them into husks (after not being seen for 300 years, so it was unprovoked), arranged for a ship to crash into a major city on a human colony in the Terminus Systems and developed a weather transforming device to make it inhospitable to organics. Not sounding all that much like they were being hounded. The one instance was the AI that developed in mechs and tried to reach the Council. Circumstances unknown about their destruction other than that C-Sec did it. They did not claim that they were ordered to destroy them. What is known that it took place the same year the Geth War ended. Also, from the ME Wiki in AI: "One of the mechs states that the C-Sec termination action is unlawful and asks why the officers continue when their appeal has not been heard." Your proof amounts to NOTHING. And this is just based on your first sentence.

The geth, of course, were only a danger to "all life" when upgraded by the Reapers. So, really, we don't have the evidence you claim.  But if they were actually the threat you claim, why is it that they could be convinced to make peace with the quarians?  So, yes, AI are potentially dangerous, but that makes them no different than any other race we've seen.  Rachni?  Krogan?  They ring any bells for you?  Turians and salarians creating and firing off the genophage?  First Contact War?  The Yahg?  Come on, man, aggressive behavior appears to be in the nature of all races, synthetic or not, so choosing Synthesis gains us nothing.

EDIT: If we take a look back 1 billion+ years, we get to the Leviathan.  They had some of their pet races wiped out by AI.  We don't know the circumstances.  We don't know who fired the first shot.  All we know is that it happened.  How do the Leviathan respond?  Create a super-powerful AI to find a solution (not, FYI, to wipe out other AI).  This AI was called the Intelligence but was later known to us as the Catalyst.  Finally, it determined a solution.  What did it do?  Attack the Leviathan and turn them into the first Reaper, Harbinger.  Then it repeated this behavior over and over across a billion or more years.  If were to draw any conclusion it's that AI is too dangerous to exist.  Somehow, though, Cerberus was smarter because they learned they could shackle AI and keep it from rebelling.  Furthermore, by treating said AI as an equal, it becomes willing to die for organics.  Could be something new occurred here.  Also, once peace is attained between quarians and geth (which, yes, the quarians started), the geth begin the process of fixing the immune systems of the quarians.

But let me ask you this.  If, say, a billion years down the line after Synthesis, organic life begins to develop on some planet in the Milky Way, what is the response going to be?  Kill it?  Force it to be synthesized?  Say they let this race play out its own destiny and it creates AI.  Aren't we back to square one no matter what?  Nothing has changed other than the Reapers and the Catalyst get away with massive genocide.

Really, though, you're just unwilling to accept that there may not be a single right answer.  I don't think any ending is the perfect one but I do believe the Reapers (and the Catalyst in particular, given it started this whole cycle of genocide) need to be punished for their actions.  Given that the Reapers are more powerful than any other race, the obvious solution is to eliminate them when the opportunity arises.  Might we one day create new AI, cause it to rebel (or just decide it's superior since either could be an option) and suffer for it?  Maybe.  But it's our mistake to make.  We're not afraid of losing tribute.  That was an issue with the Leviathan (and, arguably, the Protheans, given we know of them).  Honestly, if I were to find the solution the best removes the Reaper threat and any future threat from AI, I'd say it's Control.  That removes the Catalyst from the game, puts the Reapers under Shepard's control and allows them to prevent was between organics and synthetics (which the Leviathan themselves could have done if they cared to).  I don't care for that ending just because I want the Reapers to be punished, and I was my Shepard to live on as a human.  I've never pretended otherwise but I think, long-term, there is no solution that will prevent these wars from happening again.

Only if you are being beaten with a tuba while falling down a flight of stairs.

So if you just recently suffered major head trauma...yes

If you haven't suffered recent major head trauma then no.

Would you like another crack at it? Or do I see tuba and stairs in your next reply?

Ah.  Side-stepping the issue.  Got it.