Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
Emet-Selch also says that his ideals were inviolably correct, that the Ancients did have the will to live, and that Venat's plan had him showing up at the very end as a lynchpin. And a lot of arguments at play in this thread rely on ignoring all of these things.
Yeah, his whole thing there was basically 'I admit your plan worked, and that I'm probably here right now as part of it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it'. Emet-Selch was also a man of his principles, even if his principles caused genocides, and even in death (and rebirth, and death again) refused to betray them.

Neither side capitulated on their morals. Nor should they have; neither side was cleanly and definitively morally right, even if one side happened to be strategically right. That's the whole idea of that conflict, and why it is intentionally left an open question: even though her plan worked, it may not have been the morally right thing to do.