Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
They have souls which is an objective sign of sentience for this fantasy world so yes.
Elpis is a test facility where they are testing creations submitted by others. The planet may imbue the creations with a soul eventually, but we don’t have any evidence that the ones being tested there have souls, since the ones pointed out to us in this context (the butterflies) are said not to have them.

In other words, congratulations. If a “soul” is what makes it wrong to kill something, then Hermes is doing the equivalent of someone saying we’re wrong for what we did in Eden.