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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3170541" data-attributes="member: 7883">I haven't seen the episode...in fact, the only one I've seen this season was the premiere <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Still am not sure where to find the episodes I've missed, and now that I've missed like 5 in a row, I'm almost scared to jump in and start watching again.In any case, by the sounds of it, I wouldn't necessarily say they failed.  I would suspect they were going for the same sort of conundrum that they did in the episode where Roslin tried to rig the election.  She *knew* that Baltar was a traitor and a Cylon sympathizer...possibly an agent.  She knew him winning the election could have had a disastrous effect.To what point would she continue to support her civilized, democratic beliefs with respect to due process, and the right of the people to select their leader?  How many chances can be taken in a situation where the life and death of the species is at stake?  We learned something about her in that episode....and her judgement, though morally sound, had disastrous effects on humanity.  How many innocent people died as a result of that decision?  It's almost like a "Lord of the Flies" scenario....how long do the rules of civilized society continue to influence our behaviour when people are put in situations where they can't be enforced?I would suspect they were going for the same type of thing, but on the genocide issue.  Most viewers (I hope) find the very idea of it abhorent.  Two rights don't make a wrong.  But when faced with an enemy bent on the absolute extinction of your species, and who has made great strides in doing so, does it ever become a valid choice?Sometimes I wonder if some beliefs held by most of us in western civilization are possible/applicable only because we live in an "ivory tower" society, where by one means or another, we've managed to deal with many core threats...we've dealt with many serious threats to our survival, so we can afford to develop these principles.  If some external threat to our society meant that every day was a struggle to live, just how open would our society be?  What if humans had evolved on earth alongside another species who were intelligent enough to compete with us, and for whom homo sapiens was their natural prey?  What would our civilization be like then?  I'm sure it wouldn't be nearly as pleasant as that which many of us enjoy today.Again, they're using a rather extreme example in order to ellicit a reaction, and at least creative thought on the question.  But that doesn't mean it's not an interesting question..Banshee</blockquote>

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