>Gray fox tells Snake we are not tools of the government or anybody else
>snake decides to stop being a pawn
>only to be a pawn of Philantrophy and do their bidding even if it was for a good cause
The ending of MGS1 was too optimistic. It's kind of sad Solid Snake wasn't truly able to overcome his genes neither his programming of being a perfect soldier good goy.
So in the end genes actually matter.