Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
Yes. The issue is that for the third sacrifice it was never established that any sapient beings would be sacrificed. The topic isn't about the conflict of the seven calamities, it's about the third sacrifice pre-sundering. In that situation, we've never been told that the life to be sacrificed was anything more than plants and animals, nor if they would have had souls. And if they did, again, clearly being sundered did not give anybody a deeper respect for life given everyone is happy to breed, hunt, kill and consume potentially-soulful beings without a second thought, often not even for the purposes of survival, but rather for those of greed.

Given that the first two sacrifices involved the ancients throwing thier own, obviously sapient selves into the zodiark sacrifice pit, it stands to reason that a third, equivalent sacrifice would also involve sapient life. If you could just sacrifice dodos and fish to satisfy zodiark's need for sacrifice, why would the ancients have bothered with sacrificing themselves?

Also, themetically it would be kind of silly. "First we sacrificed half our population - then the other half that was left after that, and then... we were going to sacrifice every single chicken on the planet." C'mon.