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Originally Posted by Keroko
Yeah, we haven't caused a nuclear winter. But we're also not a species inherently aggressive by nature. We are, however, very territorial and adaptable by nature. And that's something you see reflected in the humanity in Mass Effect down to a T. To the point where it downright scares the other races.
This isn't some drug addiction we're talking here, krogans are aggressive by nature. It's simply something encoded in their DNA. Could they get rid of it? Probably, but its not nearly as easy as you make it sound. It'd take centuries of evolution or gene-splicing to do so. And in either case, it'd take voluntary action too.
Unless they build some sort of pacifism genophage or something.
Now don't get me wrong, "it's in their nature" is no excuse to let the krogans run rampant. Indeed, in my eyes the genophage was understandable especially because of that. Krogan aggression combined with their high rate of birth means they were a threat to the galaxy as bad as the rachni. One of these two had to be addressed, and the later proved to be the easiest for external forces to do so.
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The thing is as others have pointed out is that the Krogan were wrongfully given space technology. This is a species that lives for war and you can't change that. As a result they nearly destroyed their entire world and had to rebuild it from scratch. Given time they may have been able to come to an understanding and work together rather than kill each other. It's taken how many wars for humanity to fight in order for us to maintain peace like this?
Then you give these war species space faring technology when they aren't even ready for it. As a result their instincts take over and next thing you know they want to wage war against everything that moves.