*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Ralphe2449]

Is the prevention of suffering the ultimate goal of justice in your view?

If you care about justice you wouldnt be defending hydealin's genocide of the ancients, if you care about prevention of suffering you again cant defend Hydaelin's sundered creation that is filled with it which is far more than the sundered parodies.

A degradation for sure, but stories and myths are full of examples of gods becoming mortal, and in so doing gaining from their lowered status.

Unless they regained their godlike by the the end they are still inferior and many times weaker than they were before, some personal realization about life does not compensate for loss of LITERALLY godlike powers.

Why? It doesnt matter how smart or wise you feel you are, if you can get casually smitten out of existence by a being with magical powers that lives forever you simply cannot compete because you cannot attain that level of power, especially considering your extremely limited lifespan.

Worse? Debatable

World is filled with conflict and people fighting and hating each other unlike the far more united society of the ancients who even when they had disagreements it didnt result in cycles of war and death and hatred.
That is because just like real life the fact remains, he who has power can do whatever to the one who does not, which often leads to things like Garleans who even without Emet Selch would inevitably try to get revenge for the crimes they suffered in the past if they ever found a power, so would the beast tribes and many other nations

And if we are to be honest, this is a video game, in reality you would never just barge into Ishgard, a place where the populace lives under huge delusions and cult level historical knowledge and suddenly make everyone friends with their enemies, fundamental delusions such as those take GENERATIONS to be removed who suffered unjust acts in their relatively recent history.

But in truth I think the metaphor is reversed. It’s the Sundered that have the opportunity to last for much longer on a star not threatened my Meteion, and the Ancients who die to their attachment refused to change.

And that is a statement with no evidence, the Ancients were a heavy research focused civilization, meaning if a change was needed they would accept it, just like they accepted sacrificing half their number to protect the star.

People need to stop confusing "we need to build things back after a worldwide catastrophy" with "attachments and refusal to change".

If you home gets devastated you dont just accept it and stay homeless, you try to build it back up to how it was with possibly some improvements

I do think they would’ve figured out a half solution.

Immortality, godlike powers of creation and having thousands of years do make that a certainty, they might have even found a superior solution.