Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
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The part that precedes your post is huge here, I believe. The Ancients' plan after the summoning of Zodiark was to create a huge amount of life purely to sacrifice it to Zodiark in order to bring back their initially sacrificed brethren. THAT would be genocide, and on a scale that makes the remaining half of the population post-Zodiark-summoning look like a grain of sand in comparison. The simple reality is that a lot of people were going to die no matter what happened. Venat chose to sacrifice the smaller number in order to save the significantly greater amount of life that would have been killed had she not done what she did.

It's the famous mine shaft philosophy question. A boulder is falling down a mine shaft about to crush 4 people. With the press of a button, you can send it down a different shaft where it will kill only 1 person. Do you press the button or not? Yes, technically pressing the button directly causes the death of 1 person, but not pressing the button likewise directly guarantees the death of 4 people. Do you call the person who presses the button a murderer because they moved the boulder to kill 1 person instead of 4? Or do you recognize that in doing so a greater number of lives were saved? Venat pressed the button. That's all.

By your logic there's no genocide in the real world. By your logic there are also no stories with morals (which is actually a large impetus for tons of stories).
And absolutist comments like this serve no useful purpose and reek of desperation by someone who realizes their arguments have been torn, dare I say, asunder.