Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
And in FFXIV, the answer to that is 'the people who made this world were as human as humans, which means some were kinda dumb and kinda terrible'; nobody can invent an apex predator and also be a good person, so therefore since apex predators were invented, their creators must not be good people.

Which then leads to a 'with great power comes great responsibility' situation; we hold these people to higher scrutiny, because their missteps do more damage.
That's a Hell of a moral judgment to make and explains a lot as to why we'll never see eye to eye.

First of all, I don't agree with applying modern day standards to the past, especially when the sundered world exists as a result of a crime against mankind. Frankly, if the sundered are struggling with anything the Ancients created 12k years ago take it up with Venat. It certainly wouldn't be the first or only thing her sundering left people ill equipped to handle.

Second, you can't expect a society of 'godlike' beings to be concerned that several millennia in the future their race will be decimated to such an extent they lack the creation magic to even make a robe, something that's pointed out even small children are capable of doing and they can't comprehend why even that is too much for the WoL. Your expectations are unreasonable.

Third, saying good people wouldn't create apex predators is an inflammatory statement and that's all I'm going to say about it.