Ryder is definitely less stupid than Shepard

So murdering the guy at the end of the Krogan's loyalty mission doesn't count as mean spirited. Gotcha. 

Rather justified. I was thinking about something of caliber Shepard doing renegade choice despite the alternative, something like killing rachni queen at ME1, killing colonists at Feros or destroying Maelon´s data at ME2 etc.

And shooting that guy in back, after seeing process of exaltation is really far from being evil...

So Ryder would need to do something worse than exaltation for it to be evil. Interesting.

And you seem rather hellbent on killing things.

No I don´t, those are your words, your equivalent for being evil. I was talking about concept of RPG which was brought here by BioWare with its Para/Rene morality, which was helping to shape player´s character in a way he or she wanted. Besides, as if the only evil choices across the ME trilogy included only Shepard being genocidal maniac. This is more of issue of player´s freedom than anything else, and if you want less freedom, then suit yourself.

I mentioned at least two other instances of role playing, but you only bothered to quote the genocide part and then pretended that it was vital for the game to be an RPG.

In this game you don't get to be a genocidal maniac that murders people left and right, but still has his/her ass kissed by half the galaxy. ME was ridiculous in that regard, and I'm glad they changed it.

I wouldn't mind if they added the option to be one though, but it should lead to an automatic game over screen because you're either in jail or put to death.

Killing colonists? You can abandon or save thousands as Ryder as well. Maelon's data? It's importance came into light in ME3. Which can happen with any keep or destroy quest we have in MEA, assuming next game comes out. So rather poor examples.

As of rachni choice, I'm glad we don't have one like that in MEA, because I consider it one of the most stupid choices we have in MET. 

And you know there's more than one shooting in the back, right? How do you know which one Psychevore meant?

I was thinking about Peebee's loyalty mission. Yeah, doing that for some remtech is pretty messed up lol, but I'm glad the option was there, because that asari did technically try to get you killed too. 

I do agree that Ryder can be a bit too nice at times, options to be more assertive would be cool. There are NPCs with which you can be blunt, like Tann and Addison, but it doesn't happen quite often enough.

But it's another thing the OT overdid a bit. Especially Shepard being able to insult his bosses in ME1, or outright punch one of the leaders of the Quarians in ME3, and suffer absolutely 0 consequences whatsoever for it. I know that it's part of the power fantasy, but if you ask me being a dick to the wrong people should have repercussions.

So killing people that 'deserve' it is not enough? We should get option to kill whomever we want as well?

Cool.

As long as it's tied to consequences like prison or relieving from duty. Or exile in case of MEA.

Because no one would want psychopath as Pathfinder.

Ryder can be very forceful and blunt. Some of the strongest one's are tied to additional tasks and so called fetch quests though.

You've got grey.

I would not call either protagonist stupid though I will say Shepard does have some lines of dialogue that make him / her appear inept in social situations. I believe that part of that has to do with the writing, there were times during my playthroughs where I literally face palmed because of something Shepard would say or do. With Ryder I rarely find myself looking at him / her with a brow raised in question of their response. It does happen but not nearly as much. Usually it is because of their lighthearted reaction to situations that Shepard would attack head on.

Another factor is dialogue options. In my opinion Shepard is more bland with your core dialogue choices determining his / her morality and or stance in any given situation whereas Ryder's dialogue choices focuses on his / her emotional response rather than their morality. Hench why Shepard is easier to role-play as because he / she feels more like a blank space that you can fill whereas the Ryders have a more developed personality that you can alter through choosing how they react.

You can argue that it is the same system just with a change from a morality focus to emotional focus, which is not bad in my opinion.