What I find interesting is that they structured "Misbegotten" so that if the Atlanteans had decided that the only ethical action was to fight the Wraith without the retrovirus, they were guarunteed to fail. They can't take on the Wraith in a straightforward fight; they have to fight dirty.
So their choices really are: 1)Use the retrovirus to make the Wraith vulnerable and then kill them. 2)Use the retrovirus to make the Wraith vulnerable and treat them as prisoners of war. 3)Use the retrovirus to make the Wraith vulnerable and attempt to treat them as prisoners of war but only if it doesn't take too many resources (what they ended up doing). 4)Die.
As I pointed out in a post in my lj, what is most bothersome to me about this is not the way the Atlanteans acted but that they continue to insist that they are doing what's best for the Wraith by "curing" them, even when a Wraith they have "cured" tells them in no uncertain terms that that is not what he wanted.
Before "Michael" Beckett had enough wiggle room to believe that administering the retrovirus was really curing the Wraith of their disease; after "Michael," Beckett's continued insistence that that's what he's doing is pure denial.
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So their choices really are:
1)Use the retrovirus to make the Wraith vulnerable and then kill them.
2)Use the retrovirus to make the Wraith vulnerable and treat them as prisoners of war.
3)Use the retrovirus to make the Wraith vulnerable and attempt to treat them as prisoners of war but only if it doesn't take too many resources (what they ended up doing).
4)Die.
As I pointed out in a post in my lj, what is most bothersome to me about this is not the way the Atlanteans acted but that they continue to insist that they are doing what's best for the Wraith by "curing" them, even when a Wraith they have "cured" tells them in no uncertain terms that that is not what he wanted.
Before "Michael" Beckett had enough wiggle room to believe that administering the retrovirus was really curing the Wraith of their disease; after "Michael," Beckett's continued insistence that that's what he's doing is pure denial.