Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
The irony is absolute 'perfection' is bad (The Plenty), but apparently the Ancients not being perfect is... also bad? I find it arbitrary. It doesn't matter if you, or I, or anyone else thought the Ancients weren't perfect (which is subjective). It didn't give anyone the right to overthrow their democracy, strip them of their will, violate their bodies and souls without consent, and force them to birth 14 new existences conveniently with no knowledge of the monstrous crime that has been committed upon them.
You're missing the point. The idea of the ancients being perfect and having no problems was the main point of argument for Emet's side. He claimed that despite all the suffering the Umbral Calamities brought, there was still far more suffering created naturally amongst the peoples of each shard and of the source itself. In his comparison he makes it seem as if any amount of damage done to those currently existing is negligible because the ancients had no problems.

It's a bit of a utilitarian way of thinking. He's claiming that his way will cause the greatest amount of happiness and the least amount of suffering in the long run.

You can't change what happened to them and that's not really worth the discussion.