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Originally Posted by james0246
They don't understand because they still exist solely on an instinctual level and they were never allowed to evolve to the point where they didn't exist solely on that instinctual level. Unlike many other races that attained spaceflight and eventual interstellar travel through hard work, dedication, and some amount of interspecies unity (and handy mass effect devices conveniently located not too far from home  ), the Krogan were literally taken from their destroyed home (by the Salarians) and bred to fight the Rachni ( Is it any wonder they failed so spectacularly as an intergalactic species?). Consequently, they had no chance to actively evolve out of their animalistic ways (they also weren't given a chance to simply die off), nor were they given a chance to even learn how to work within a galactic society. |
Well, the thing is they were given the usual privileges as the heroes of the Rachni wars. And I am sure the Krogans appreciate being given new planets to settle by the Council. The fact that they threw it all away may be due to their instincts, but that didn't change the fact that they abused the trust others gave them.
Saying it is their instincts isn't a defense. Indeed, it damns them. Something like the genophage is essentially pest control, something you release to cull numbers of wild animals. Genophage would no longer be necessary if and when Krogans use the sentient brain they were gifted instead of their animal past.
I mean, the Krogans invented nukes all on their own. They are not physically as stupid as their past historical actions might have suggested. They
can control their instincts like the rest of us.