Originally posted by ussrelativity
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The important thing to remember is that the Ancients suffered from the same problem as the Asgard, they were TOO advanced.
The Asgard needed us to help them against the Replicators because the only way they knew to fight them was to develop more and more advanced technologies, which promptly got absorbed by the Replicators, making them even stronger.
The Ancients were too advanced to think of relatively simple ideas like creating a virus to shut down the gate system, or a gene therapy to turn them into humans and/or remove their need to feed.
They could only fight the Wraith by trying to develop newer and better technologies. Unfortunately for the Ancients, they suffered from extreme short sightedness, only seeing the desired effects their technology would have and not considering the negative effects until they had wasted valuable time and resources in R&D.
When they did finally have technology that they could use against the Wraith, they were too morally righteous to use it because of the side effects. Towards the end of the war they were trying to ascend, and probably didn't think that commiting genocide would do any good for their efforts.
At the end of the day, it was the Ancients' responsibility to solve the problem of the Wraith which they were indirectly responsible for. If their moral compass had been on the same heading as ours, they would've considered sacrificing ascension to be worth saving all the humans in the galaxy.
However, as has been previously stated, we can't measure the morals of an alien race against our own ideals. From our perspective, the Ancients were selfish, cowardly, and short-sighted.
But without these flaws, we wouldn't have a show!
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