Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
She literally lived to watch and guide the world she created, she didn't just ollie out of everything.
It's a little different watching from the outside versus actually living it herself.

And there's no evidence Ra-la killed souls so much as just terminated the lives they were living,
In that case what's even the problem? It's just a willing total societal reset.

In Buddhist beliefs, you could see Venat's cessation as reaching that goal of nirvana, while Emet-Selch still has growing to do. But those Buddhist notions don't exist in this text, and the game generally looks at it as 'continuing to exist is good and you should generally do that if possible', so suddenly it flips; Venat faces the ultimate punishment of total death for what she did, while Emet-Selch, positioned as essentially her moral mirror, gets to keep going.
Related to the above, you could say it's so she could never live in the world she made. A tragedy, depending on your perspective.