The less Krogan the better.

B.
 
But I'll put them down myself if need be.
Here's hoping Wrex can handle things.

Until some other options exists the genophage is an absolutely morally sound and necessary requirement.
 
I would hope a better solution could be found though.
 
Sometimes things just suck all around.

B. Renegade

Reducing the krogan's insane birth rate is perfectly fine and was necessary at the time and probably still is until they get themselves in line. However, the way the genophage works is why I'm against it. The salarians and turians just say that it reduces the krogan birth rate; they neglect to mention most of the time that it doesn't lower fertility, it makes the embryos not develop nervous systems, resulting in clutches full of stillbirths. The thought of a krogan getting pregnant and wading through the eggs(I'm assuming they lay eggs but I may be wrong), hoping against all odds that one of them makes it only to have every last one be a lifeless husk is horrendous if you ask me.
 
Logically and scientifically it makes sense but to see (or at least hear) what it does in person drives home the fact it is something that must be stopped.

Buncha Nazis up in this bitch...

Pro, it was necessary, and makes sense why they did it. Mordin made a very strong case. 

I think we'll need the krogan again for fighting the Reapers, so the salarians shot themselves in the foot, there. I think it's morally bad, but sometimes morally awful things restore the balance as the genophage did. I'm about as split as mordin. I guess it's necessarily but also something worth regretting, and they need compensation, too.

I am pro genophage. It was for the sake of the rest of the galaxy. He did what he had to do.

" Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Nazis.  There; now that Godwin's Law has been invoked, this discussion can continue unabated.  I voted C. The genophage was genocide, no matter which way you put it. I realize that it may have been the only option at the time, but there's no way I could ever support anything like it. "

It's uncool, brah.

Really tough to decide this, I know it's just a videogame but I have thought alot about this exact subject
 
I see both the pros and cons of the genophage, but no matter how much thought I put into it I always come out on the side of being against it
 
Sure, the galaxy started fearing how fast the Krogan would multiply and maybe become a threat after being granted off world technology but damn it, they fought and won against the rachni when no one else could and they deserved some props for it. Instead an act of of genocide was unleashed on their people, causing even more chaos with the Krogans, dividing them as a people and eventually leading to the destruction of Tuchanka, I mean seriously, have you seen that planet?
 
I understand why it was done but it's still wrong, the council and the salarians made a mistake, the krogans are a proud and strong people consisting of warriors, but the genophage has almost eradicated them from the galaxy
 
/nerd

A lot of you are forgetting the fact that if the genophage wasn't unleashed, the Krogans most likely would have taken over the Galaxy. They were multiplying at a crazy rate, and were incredibly aggressive which started their rebellion. The salarians gave them the technology and they abused it by being aggressive, and them multiplying at an alarming rate only made matters worse. The only option was to either completely kill them all(Which would have been simple according to Mordin) But they didn't want another species to go extinct. So the only other logical thing to do was to make it so only 1 out of 1000 of them survive, which evens out the population. 
 
So it was either kill them all, or even out the population so they can't completely overrun the galaxy with their aggressive behavior. The Salarians chose the best thing to do. 
 
EDIT: Also I don't see why some of you think the genophage caused Tuchanka to be the way it is. It would be like that regardless. Something Mordin explains to you. The cause was once again, Krogans being aggressive when they got technology.

I've been confused as to whether the genophage is a sterility plague or a stillborn plague.  Most other races describe it as a sterility plague, preventing pregnancy in even fertile female... but krogan (granted, mostly disreputable) have claimed that pregnancy happens, but not live birth.
 
I'm fine with a sterility plague, there's nothing wrong with that.  Returns them to pre-uplift levels.  Stillbirth plague makes me morally uncomfortable, but as a Renegade, I'd make the difficult moral choice to protect the galaxy from krogan aggression.
 
@Venatio said:

dividing them as a people and eventually leading to the destruction of Tuchanka, I mean seriously, have you seen that planet?

" Definitely pro genophage.   I feel like Mordin made the case that it was unquestionably the right thing to do.  "

Why do I feel like the people who are pro eugenics wouldn't exist if eugenics existed.

"Reducing the krogan's insane birth rate is perfectly fine and was necessary at the time and probably still is until they get themselves in line. However, the way the genophage works is why I'm against it. The salarians and turians just say that it reduces the krogan birth rate; they neglect to mention most of the time that it doesn't lower fertility, it makes the embryos not develop nervous systems, resulting in clutches full of stillbirths. The thought of a krogan getting pregnant and wading through the eggs(I'm assuming they lay eggs but I may be wrong), hoping against all odds that one of them makes it only to have every last one be a lifeless husk is horrendous if you ask me.  Logically and scientifically it makes sense but to see (or at least hear) what it does in person drives home the fact it is something that must be stopped. "

I am pro-Genophage all the way.
 
The universe is saved from Krogran slaughter and the Krograns themselves are still kicking. Not exactly win-win but as Mordin pointed out it would've been a lot easier to make the entire species sterile but the scientists put the hard work into making sure that didn't happen and that genocide was avoided.

Well, basically saying "pro-genophage" is saying "pro-genocide", but knowing what the outcome would be if the Krogan were allowed to breed without limitations.. it's an impossible decision. Having said that, I'm afraid genophage would be a (temporary) necessary evil to save "everyone". 
 
I already see Blizzard stealing this part for Starcraft, maybe they will borrow Mordin to create a "one in a million" genophage weapon for/against the Zerg?

Grunt and Wrex are the two biggest bros around. All other Krogans seem to be dicks, except that one old one. 
 
Plus if there were tons of Krogans running around it would make the few that appear way less badass. Also make a genophage for Turians, ALL of them are dickheads except Garrus. But I think there's even a convo with Garrus where he says how he's not even remotely like any Turian he knows.  I also say this because Salarians are my favorite race since ME1.

" Why do I feel like the people who are pro eugenics wouldn't exist if eugenics existed. "

" Well, basically saying "pro-genophage" is saying "pro-genocide"...

Pro-genophage. It had to be done, the Krogan had become a threat to every species in existence.

" Really tough to decide this, I know it's just a videogame but I have thought alot about this exact subject  I see both the pros and cons of the genophage, but no matter how much thought I put into it I always come out on the side of being against it  Sure, the galaxy started fearing how fast the Krogan would multiply and maybe become a threat after being granted off world technology but damn it, they fought and won against the rachni when no one else could and they deserved some props for it. Instead an act of of genocide was unleashed on their people, causing even more chaos with the Krogans, dividing them as a people and eventually leading to the destruction of Tuchanka, I mean seriously, have you seen that planet?  I understand why it was done but it's still wrong, the council and the salarians made a mistake, the krogans are a proud and strong people consisting of warriors, but the genophage has almost eradicated them from the galaxy  /nerd "

" Pro-genophage. It had to be done, the Krogan had become a threat to every species in existence. "

Shepard. 
 
Anti-Genophage.

Krogan were trouble according to the victors of the war. That tends to be the case. The people who committed atrocities justified their actions. This tends to be the case. Because Ron Perlman never changes.

" @haggis: How do you define genocide? Doesn't forcing 999 out of 1000 "potential" children to die look like passively (but willingly) killing off specific parts of a group/race? I'm not even sure I think that way, I'm just asking.. it's a very interesting topic for a discussion, but maybe a bit "heavy" for a game discussion. Back to ME2: I think it was pretty obvious that agreeing with Mordin would be the "renegade" choice, because when there clearly is no way to make the situation look good, they want you to go and find the most humane way, not the most logical way. Mordin said that what he did to the krogan was the right thing to do, but only because he didn't see another way to handle it. He still thinks he did something bad and he's right about that. The "paragon" position was telling him exactly that and it makes sense to me. I don't think I've ever played a game that doesn't have the "wrong or right" part, depending on whether you are good or evil, and I'm pretty sure that would be too complicated for someone who just wants to play a game.  PS: My english is bad, I hope it's understandable. :) "

" @emem: You're confusing what genocide is, then. There was no intention of wiping out the Krogan. And in fact, they didn't wipe out the Krogan. And the Krogan were in no real danger of killing themselves off. So the whole question of genocide is really off the table. I would have preferred it for the sake of the story that someone on the Salarian team actually actually intended genocide. It would make the whole question more interesting."  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I think the issue may be more that the Krogan were claiming their clutches were still-born. This could be viewed as more controversial if either the babies were dying before birth, or if not regarded as alive in the egg or whatever, were causing great emotional tauma upon the parents when viewing their lifless but developed children. This as oppossed to enforced stirility that would only allow 1 in 1/1000. 
 
But if this was not the issue, then I would agree with the statement above.

I'd cure the genophage if I needed the Krogan's numbers in a war.  I'd also use the Rachni since I freed the Queen on Feros. 
 
After the war, I'd reinstate the genophage to lower the Krogan's numbers.  I'll use them like my own race of attack dogs.  The Krogan are only useful when something needs to die and a lot of people/things on my side are going to die.  If I need bodies, I'll know where to find them. 
 
I did the same with Legion's loyalty mission.  I reprogrammed the heretic Geth only to have more bodies for the up coming war.  Right and wrong had nothing to do with it.  I do good deeds, but that's to get people to like me so I can make them do suicidal things and they'll be cool with it.

@haggis:

1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and

2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."

 
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

Attempted genocide is never the ideal answer imo.  If they had made it so that Krogan males had low fertility rates and had a hard time getting women pregnant, that'd be one thing, but didn't they do it in a way where it just meant the women gave birth to still born babies or had miscarriages?  Salarians are super geniuses, they could have gone about it in a more humane way than what they did but they chose like the most gruesome method possible.
 
I was upset that on Moridin's mission you didn't have an option to support his friend.  Your only options were various degrees of doing what Moridin wanted, which was different than all the other ones.

We just can't forget that Krogans are, overall, assholes.
Sure its kinda evil from the Salarians but have you tried reasoning with most Krogan? I have, and it always led to gunfights, they are not a reasonable people.
They live to fight, they die because they fight, they live to die basically, and everything in their culture supports that.
 
In time, with leaders like Wrex, they might cool down a little and focus their rage on better things then themselves/other species but if Krogan's breed insanely fast like stated then the Genophage was justified, the game would have been called Krogan Effect otherwise since they'd bloody overrun everyone.
 
I'd still cure it as I said before tho, we're gonna need them.
And then I'll take em all out myself, suicide mission 2.0!

I'm against it, but I undertand and believe it had to happen.  
Under all the rage against how "cowardly" the Krogan seem to believe the Genophage was as an attack. They seem to have learned that even with all the strength and numbers they had in fighting wars, they can be simply brought down by a complicated rearrangement of genes. 
 
Which would definitely give them cause to be less trigger-happy in future. 
If the Genophage is cured I wouldn't care for the moral side of giving the Krogan their full breeding capabilities back, I'd still limit that, but I'd make their race breeding  ability a sustainable one not a strategic, rapidly expanding nation, type of one.