Are the Ascians truly wrong?

[frostmagemari]

The Opening Post

The Ascians are not wrong for wanting to bring about the rejoining. However, unlike a creature like Alduin, who was created for the sole purpose of devouring the world of Nirn to bring about the birth of a new world; The Ascians charged themselves with bringing back the old world that they lost.
Is their want to bring back their old world wrong? No, not at all; however, they knowingly and purposefully create chaos, hatred and suffering. They also fully acknowledge that the being that are left after the final rejoining occurs will be used as fuel for Zodiark to bring back their world.
Additionally, as others have said, the remaining shards are not unstable and not in any inherent danger of falling to one Aether element that they have to do any of this for anyone's own good; Each of the shifts to one kind of Aether have been from their meddling in the shards.

So, I can sympathize with the want, and perhaps need to bring back a world that you were the only survivor(s) from; but not their methods. If there was a way to rejoin the worlds without the massive loss of life, then sure.. but even that isn't part of the plan; they don't want any of the fake people who inhabit the source and shards to survive, as they're nothing but a mockery of who they used to be.

I actually haven't seen Infinity War or Endgame, but from what I've heard Thanos is one of those morally ambigious, sympathetic villains.

Eh.. he's really not. I mean, he's a little sympathetic and probably one of the better villains we'll get in a super hero movie... but he's not morally ambiguous. He knows full well the pain and suffering he's causing, and employs creatures who's only purpose in existence is to painfully rend their prey asunder in what would probably be the most painful deaths possible to create a future that he then intends to fully remove himself from (as he did by retiring to a farm on a deserted planet) and hope(at best) that the people left after his crusade can pick up the pieces. People talk Thanos up a lot, but he's not as deep or as thoughtful as people rave about when you take more than a 5sec look at the character and his actions.