So I whined a lot about how this episode and "The Hub" took wildly different approaches to "genocide," and I still think that that argument more or less stands up. But I did just want to touch on one possible argument for the defense, which occurs in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner." Natalie-Six tells everyone just how important death is to life:
"In our civil war, we've seen death. We watched our people die. Gone forever. As terrible as it was, beyond the reach of the Resurrection Ships, something began to change. We could feel a sense of time. As if each moment held its own significance. We began to realize that for our existence to hold any value it must end. To live meaningful lives we must die, and not return. The one human flaw, that you spend your lifetimes distressing over - mortality - is the one thing...well, it's the one thing that makes you whole."
So here... it's some sort of "gift," for lack of a better term, and unlike the Cylon disease, which kills you painfully within a matter of days, losing resurrection at least lets you live out your life. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut... it's still "genocide," because the Cylon race can't reproduce.
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