Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
There's a big difference between wiping out a few ant hives and wiping all ants from existence. If you set your life goal with making ants extinct, you better believe your going to get pushback from Humanity in the real world.
And the Hydaelyn group did protest! After a fashion. Humanity would protest it... unless their existence was a detriment to them. Not to mention if the races survival depended on their death. Look up the argument around that mosquito gene therapy extermination argument that's going around nowadays. Not a great many arguments are made on moral ground against it there.

Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
But simply by acknowledging that those ants are alive, you're placing them higher than Hades places fractured life.
Eeehh true. It's hard to come up with a good and simple analogy for this situation. Its hard to come up with a semi-sentient living example that is basic, miserable, and morally as abhorrent to us, as mortals are to Emet.

Anyways, its (at the risk of sounding like a broken record) a matter of perspective. In the game we only have his word to go on. They don't look so incredibly different from us (aside from being extremely powerful and utopian), but time and again they are stated as such, and no one really pointed it out... so I guess its a writing issue? It's hard to write such superior beings without them being utterly alien.