Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
Even if that were true, it wouldn't matter -- because the definition of genocide includes things like destroying a HISTORY or CULTURE of a people. Not just their literal life. For example, the Christian Church destroying pagan religious beliefs, texts and artifacts is a form of genocide, along with the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the United States' barbaric Native American schools which tore them away from their parents to conform them to American society. All of these meet the criteria of genocide, despite not intentionally trying to wipe out or kill the the people themselves.

But, I said "even if" that were true -- which it isn't. The Ancients do not consider themselves the same beings that came after the Sundering, and the Sundered do not ever remember being Ascians. If someone took a mutation ray and turned, say, every Chinese person on Earth into gerbils, that would be genocide. The argument that they are "technically alive" is irrelevant when their physical bodies, memories, and basic means of functioning are completely different. The people they used to be are dead in every way that matters.
Shocking, truly shocking how few people seem to remember mass cultural erasure counts as genocide. I suspect that amongst FFXIV-goers this is intentional.