Quote Originally Posted by Zevox View Post
Thank you - was going to point that out myself until I saw you already had.

If you don't trust anything that the Catalyst tells you, then your only option is Refuse, since it's the only course of action that you know for a complete certainty that the Catalyst isn't manipulating. But that's just choosing to fail and let the Reapers win. So you have to place at least some amount of trust that the options it presents are in fact options in order to pick any of them - at which point, arguing that you don't trust, on its own, ceases to be a good reason not to pick any one particular option.
Refuse wasn't an option when the game shipped. I do consider it the only option that makes any sense from Shepard's perspective but since I was forced to make a decision I chose destroy.