The eternal Genophage debate

I thought they were going into an interesting direction with the genophage during ME2, where things were rough for krogan fathers who wanted to be with their children and the mothers were going through heartbreak giving birth to dead kids until they were willfully going through torture just to be able to have a kid without fear of it dying.
Think about it. A lot of people can take for granted that they have the option to conceive a child and expect it will survive, look at you and spit up on that one good shirt you just had to be wearing when your child's mother went in.
What would that be like, if it was a 75% chance you were going to look at a dead infant after a 12 month long pregnancy of waiting, maybe even feeling it kick while in the womb? And it was all because a bunch of scientists decided it's best for you to deal with that emotional wreckage so their people didn't have to deal with your ancestors' stupidity?
The worst part is that it really was the merciful route. We're not krogan, we don't spawn whole nests. But what if Salarians had planned a version of the genophage on humans as well during the First Contact War? Would we say it's fair since humanity has a reputation for aggression?
Curing the genophage was really uncomfortable, given the codex entries of colonized worlds given to krogan in the past that had degenerated into a waste pit because they were too conflict orientated instead of consolidating resources. It was also what was giving Wrex his leverage over other krogan since cooperation was only working because they couldn't resort to the hordes of the past.
ME3 threw that all out and made it an issue of extinction (which was false) versus krogan rebellions (also unlikely).
Given the war and the need for ground troops, it seemed easier to deal with krogans later than Reapers now. Too bad it didn't undermine Wrex's hold, I was hoping it'd be a message of learning to cooperate for the krogan instead of beating their heads over a cure. The upside at least for curing the genophage is that even if the krogan attempted something stupid they:
1. Have no ships to start trouble for some time so everyone will be able to respond quickly
2. Mordin DID say it's far easier to sterilize them than create another genophage...
So there were backup plans for a cured Genophage! Win-win!

But that's the thing, the Genophage isn't some ancient curse thrown on the antediluvian Krogan for reasons unknown. Many of the Krogan alive currently are veterans of the Rebellions, or at the very least, one generation removed from it. Heck, the Patriarch on Omega is a veteran of the Rachni Wars, and he's still remarkably spry for his age. One thousand years is a long time for the rest of the galaxy and the other shorter lived species, but for the majority of the Krogan population, they are the same people that took part in the Rebellions.

The Rebellions, which saw the Krogan launch an unprovoked attack on their allies, despite numerous attempts at negotiation, and lead to such acts as Krogan hunting down and eating Salarian civilians, to dropping several asteroids on Turian garden worlds; a species that wasn't even apart of the governmental body that the Krogan were rebelling against. The Genophage was actually a mercy considering the alternative, and a good portion of the population is still alive from when this 'punishment' was enacted, and in many cases, were guilty of the crimes that warranted such punishment. What's more, the Krogan, as a whole, have not demonstrated that they are willing to live alongside the rest of the galaxy, nor have they tried to improve themselves instead always looking for a handout to help them out of their woes.

Characters like Wrex say that the Krogan should be given a second chance, that they should be allowed to forge their own path, but he's real quick to damn the last surviving Rachni Queen to a painful and violent death based on the actions of her ancestors. How can I be expected to show the Krogan clemency when they won't do the same? Heck, why should I consider a species like the Rachni worth extinction compared to a species, that as a whole, approached disagreements with guns drawn?

 Cured. I had Wrex king, and Eve alive, so the circumstances looked as favorable as they could get. Also, having Mordin himself give it his approval gave the cure some credibility (although there could be something said about his eagerness to atone). It was awfully tempting, I admit, to turn my back on them for political gain, but that also felt like turning back on all the progress that I myself contributed to and thus did not feel right. So, cure it is.


That said, I admire the SOBs that sabotaged. That, admittedly, is probably the more logical decision.

That was the odd part about Salarian help. The Dalatrass had tried to do that to begin with, and promptly got ganged up on by Wrex/Wreav, Victus, and Shepard. Trying to withhold help in a war only blew up in her face. So trying it again after not getting her way...goes unanswered after the war?
It's just not what I expected from the Salarians. I was expecting subtlety, contorted, elaborate plans. I thought the Dalatrass was going to say,"I know what you're all going to say, and I agree we need to do something about the Reapers. Let me send my handpicked team of specialists to handle the cure for you (who will no doubt sabotage it)"
There. She preempted Shepard, and now Shep has to agree with her terms controlling the cure or look like a paranoid dolt when she's giving them what they asked for. The most Shep can do is accompany them with Mordin, plan to sabotage the cure can be figured out by Mordin/Padok, now you have a choice: kill the team of Salarians who are wearing cameras connected to their colonies and homeworld as witnesses or let them finish.
If Shepard kills them, they look like villains to the Salarians, Salarians have a public excuse to stay reluctant to help. Let them live and Salarians match what the Krogan refuse to do.

It's a tough situation granted, though dead babies isn't really anything new to the Krogan if we look at them prior to uplift. If their birthrates needed to be that high to just compensate for the environment they evolved in, then we would be seeing way more dead kids than Genophage ever caused.