3.4 speculation

[Kallera]

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Please do not play the WW2 card as you have. The topic of genocide is more precise, farther reaching in practice than WW2 and has none of the personal attacks you were making on their character. that someone justifies the reason for a military campaign in the context of a fictional story doesn't mean they would approve of it in real life.

Nalien makes a point(cough) in pointing out that religious belief is a far more powerful and destructive weapon in the world of hydelyn. Without the presence of chosen ones to fight off primals and given the damage the primals do when summoned in such manners, the prospect of destroying the believers becomes a tantalizing solution(and one even the eorzean cities would have embraced, Gridania in particular).

We make our RL moral judgements from a position that neither has magic, nor supernatural beings popping out at the whims of the downtrodden, smiting their enemies. In Eorzea, that is a panic many people have been living with without the comfort of a Warrior of Light.(who just happens to survive every half cocked scheme to down said primals) The guys with magitek, half a clue, and the ability to down the local Shiva with miniguns? That looks senisble, teachable, even! You can't teach The Echo, near as I can tell, and some folks, like Garleans, just do not have it, what would their answer be in the face of such destructive faith, born of the light of crystals?

They found their answer in magitek and dominion, as imperfect and destructive as it is.