Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
By that argument Grahas world could've also decided to build upon their loss, survive, and continue figthing against the Ascian agenda, instead of pushing the time travel button and trying to save the past. Ascians aside we know that the Source already survived multiple calamities so its not impossible.

The argument isn't that Graha is as horrible or uncaring as the Ascians, but that on principle they made the same decision... and if the narrative presents this principle to be wrong, then it should be acknowledged on both sides in some form.
No it does not have to be both wrong if you take the moral complexity in it. The game for example does not show it as really bad that the Ancient ones summoned Zodiark to save their planet and thus needed sacrifice. It does show it as wrong that they continued to want unwilling sacrifice after the planet was safe.

The calamity was already 200 years gone but seemingly the world was still so worse (and I am sure that people tried to rebuilt it) that generations after us decided that the best course of action would be to change the past. It seems that the world was still dieing (which is not surprising since the gas did affect everything and even turned the soil bad). This is the difference! The Ascians got their world reborn, they had survived, the world was there to be rebuilt, it was whole and healthy. The future world after the 8th was not.

Real world example about same principle: Killing a person is the same no matter the situation, right? No, even in law there is difference thanks to the situation and intent behind it.

Kill someone in cold blood and you are seen as a bad person, kill someone in self defense in your own house when your life is at rist and it does not count as murder but self-defense. And if someone kills another to stop him from killing others then they are too seen as the hero and not the bad one. But in the end if you break it down, in each case you have taken a life. But the way it was done and why will change the perspective of it quite a bit.