Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
She knows what will be the result in terms of the bad things that can happen, but the result was not why she sundered mankind. That's why she pled with the Ancients. If they didn't choose to go with their plan of sacrificing the new life to return their old lives, I don't think she would commit the sundering.

The sundering also had nothing to do with Zodiark. It was Meteion that the Sundering was ultimately supposed to defeat by teaching mankind to "live through suffering". But honestly, that's taking the logic of the story at face value, and I've already gone through pages and pages of explanations about why it doesn't work even after the story tried to bend over backwards to make it work.
Of course the sundering had to do with Zodiark. The sundering happened because she couldn't kill Zodiark, so she had to weaken him somehow, and yes, it also had to do with Meteion as an action does not have to have only one purpose.

Your examples still do not apply because they are about specific injuries. The sundering is not about specific injury as the whole world was sundered. If what you say is true, then the planet itself is injured and dying.

Also, another factor contributing to the shortened life spans is the loss of creation magic, meaning mankind had to work harder to exist and not rely simply on creation magic. Quality of life changes alone can change life spans. That is not a direct comparison to actually stabbing an individual because the indivual was not injured. All the resulting problems happened because life is harder for them, so conflicts can arise more easily.

I still don't see where any of that was said in the story.[/QUOTE]

She even says in ShB, it’s not the sacrifices so much that is the problem for her. It’s the fact that she thinks Zodiark isn’t a permanent solution. She says as much in her Anamnesis dialogue. Also….Venat gave her rabbits creation magic lmao. Another example of her hypocrisy. Either way, it is living through suffering. We see even before the final days people suffered, they dealt with grief. Venat actually made things worse in the end. The sundered’s souls were completely erased during the final days. The ancients thankfully didn’t have this happen to them. But that’s another side effect of her sundering. Can we then call that genocide?