Quote Originally Posted by KariTheFox View Post
Well, not quite - Venat assumes that the race of god-beings who do not meaningfully experience suffering would not be able to handle it.

The story ultimately seems to fall on the side of "people are capable of enduring existential dread" since, we, y'know - won.
Yes, which is literally a buddhist argument. Buddhism's entire core belief is that life is suffering. Mankind, in Buddhist purview, is the only form of life capable of reaching enlightenment because they are the only ones who know can know suffering. In Buddhism, even Deva and Asura (their deities) cannot escape dukkha (suffering) specifically because their lives are so blissful that they don't understand it.

What I mean by saying that FFXIV assumes that humanity has a "functionally anti-buddhist mentality" is the assumption that all the masses (the anti-buddhists) must follow the super, special, enlightened few (the buddhists) in understanding suffering to truly save themselves.