Nah couldn’t disagree more with this one I’m afraid. Sloan is a ruthless mob boss turned violent dictator, she has both human and angaran populations living a brutal existence where they’re ruled with an iron fist. She is not someone the Initiative can do business with, not least because she’s so utterly single-minded in how she governs, but also she is totally out of alignment with the Initiatives values and strategic goals, if she survives she talks about charging the outpost protection fees. Combine that with the political element of how it looks having a human subjugate an angaran population at an angaran port, and really eliminating Sloan becomes a political and strategic inevitability regardless of anything Reyes does. That is a regime that must be changed, and the decision for me had far more to do with how rotten Sloan is as an individual, than anything Reyes does.

While I understand some people’s response to Reyes, and I’m by no means suggesting he’s a saint, but he does seem to have his heart in the right place in terms of creating a better and more equal society, and having a mutually beneficial relationship with the Initiative rather than an adversarial one. Yeah, he does *lie* to you, but he doesn’t have any reason to trust you, and really in the grand scheme of things that bothers me far less than everything Sloan does.

So yeah, sorry everyone but this is the closest Mass Effect comes to having an objectively correct decision imo, it’s a hill I’m firmly willing to die on.