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In the show, you can be sure the writers will never allow one quote possible outcome of Helo's action to happen in the show -- the Cylon fleet stumbles into them and decides to wipe out all of the humans. If that happened, would you still think Helo made a good choice? What if Sharon has some more of that residual code and she starts up sabotaging the ship again? Still good choices? Remember, the Cylons only didn't kill all humans because they missed a few. And let's not forget the women being used for experiments on Caprica, the mindgames with Starbuck using a child, and so on.

With respect to moral equivalency and becomming just like your enemy, it's important to remember context. The Cylons started the war. The Cylons tried to exterminate all humans. The Cylons have been not simply murderous but cruel. They made it into an exterminate or be exterminated issue.

[Hawk1976]

Humans have the ability to be murderous and cruel. We also have the choice to not be murderous and cruel. Cylons also seem to have the ability to make that choice, it is not a choice that has presented to them to make.

Sharon didn't just violate her code once. She did it a number of times.