Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
I actually really like these points and would agree. My response could only be that given the information we know Venat to have, plus the information we come to learn from the various major figures in the story, it is reasonable to believe that Venat was acting correctly contingent on the information she had. It is indeed true that we won’t know for certain. But, as is the case in our lives, we are not certain of anything and must make the best decisions possible regardless.
Thats fine. But what's "best" is ultimately up to the individual. Venat isn't perfect and isn't the arbiter of right and wrong. She made a decision that ultimately led to the ancients being driven into a corner and drove them to desperate measures. She did what she did for another era that was no closer to figuring out the truth of what the final days truly were. There are several instances where characters are shown committing questionable acts in pursuit of some goal they deemed necessary.

In another post, I brought up that G'raha and the ironworks of his timeline theorized that averting the 8UC in our timeline would've erased all inhabitants of his. This includes everyone on Etheirys, all its remaining sundered shards, and any aliens that still may exist across the universe at the time if there are any. Despite this, they still went along with this mission because to them, a world in which the WoL survives was preferable to their own broken world, and thus was worth the sacrifice.

Everyone is ultimately entitled to their opinion on what is right or wrong. If you deem the sacrifice of innocent lives to be an act of evil, then that's fine. I don't care and don't take it too personally when someone voices their opinion on a certain group and the atrocities they might have committed. I also don't care enough to take a hard stance on who's actions are more or less just. At the end of the day, they're just actions and I'm just here to see a story unfold.

What I do care about however is when the story itself is incapable of taking an unbiased stance and deeming the actions of our characters as more morally justifiable than the acts of the Ascians. The ancients determine that exchanging the lives of all life forms on their star for those initially devoured by Zodiark was worth it, and they're vilified for it. Fine, that's only fair. G'raha basically threatens to erase an entire timelines worth of people without consent, and unsurprisingly... nobody cares! But don't get me wrong, I get it lol! G'raha is our friend, and he did what he did to save us, so of course we let him off the hook. Why on earth would we ever vilify someone who was on our side, we're supposed to be the good guys! When Hydaelyn decided to cripple the world leading to untold suffering for 10K years, what she did was not a kindness and it pained her to have to go through with it. She feels bad about it so its ok guys, let's not give her a hard time.