This is why everyone switches their allegiance to the brotherhood in Fallout 4

I mean, come on Shaun. You expect me to just happily go along with your "better future" plans, when you have just basically told me you see everything as a experiment? screw you Shaun.

[hansofaxalia]

“The outside world is such an evil place”
Says the man who released his own father to the wasteland, expecting him to die

[Miko]

Institute: *release super mutants, kidnap people, have synths wipe out towns, destroy the commonwealths attempt at a government*
Father: "this just confirms the truth I've always known, the commonwealth is dead, there's no future here"

[dannymunch]

Nate: "I was just another experiment to you?"
Shaun: "No. More than that. Entertainment."
Nate: "Listen here you little shit."

[GeneThundersnow]

“Here’s 500 bottle caps for your troubles. Hope that covers the trauma I’ve inflicted on you, dad.”

[pokemongo-uprq]

"Why did you attack your father?"
"He tried to make me pay taxes."

[AMD]

The only way this was ever going to end. Especially after he gave me 500
Caps like a common mercenary.

[jetabyss]

Even Caesar shows more respect for the player than Shaun does.

[jamalwhitaeger]

It's ironic that the first time he steps out into the wasteland, he gets killed, stripped to his underwear, and thrown off a building.

[UltimateWaifuXD]

I joined the brotherhood for the power armor and the giant amazon prime robot.

[jackp.richardson]

He only released his own father from a stasis prison for a personal pet-project on what he'd do to find his missing child, and completely disregards the murder of his own mother as "collateral damage". Shaun died a long time before the Sole Survivor was dethawed.

[TheSuedeUzi]

The thing I can't get over is that throughout the entire time that you were frozen in Vault 111, Shawn was working hand in hand with Kellogg, the man who literally killed his mother/father in cold blood.

[weegee]

Adding up to the institute being bad
There was once a janitor that stole a pack of ciggarets and got trown into a FEV tank and eventually turned into a monster
*his name was Edgar Swan*

[Thaddeus]

It's so crooked considering how Shaun was an experiment to the Institute, and he does the same thing they did, but to you.

[zacharysheetz]

"You are not my son! Shaun died with his mother. I see that now."

[ODST_Parker]

It's ironic, how he considers the outside world such a corrupting influence on others, and how it's basically not worth saving, when he's part of the Institute, a group which closed itself off from the outside to such a degree that people are essentially nothing more than experiments to be tested, results to be analyzed, failures to be discarded. He's been under the worst influence imaginable, and can't see it because it's all he knows.

[owenlastname.]

"no thats not all" refuses to elaborate.
It REALLY seems like that was all.

[mysticdn]

I love how Father is the only Essential NPC that is killable at anytime

[robbiewood]

I still feel like the factions needed to be more... nuanced. Like, I can see that the Institute and the Railroad will never get along, but an alliance between the Minutemen and the Institute should be feasible. Or even Minutemen working with the Brotherhood to some degree.

[navitgator]

I felt more sympathy for the think tank in big MT then i had for father

[teckdeck]

I love you, dad, but you were more like a pet to me