Can't help but notice that the last two pages seem... off. Like, enough posts disappeared that it seems like Lurina's post went to the "next" page despite the total page count going down.

Does moderation truly exist on this forum? I wonder what even got deleted.

As mildly alluded to, there's a similar situation in Mass Effect 2. Legion's loyalty mission involves rewriting the Geth "heretics" so that they will no longer worship The Reapers. You can rewrite them or destroy them. It varies according to each third wheel member, but a couple of them quip up with, "Rewriting them is worse than outright destroying them because you're killing their identity." One of the responses Shepard can retort with is something along the lines of, "We can't apply biological ethics to synthetic beings! They're different!"
There's a parallel to this in one of the level 90 dungeon quests. The Omicron only ever stopped their omnicidal strip mining of the universe because they ran out of stronger things to attack, so after the defeat of Meteion, one of their higher ups decided to launch an attack on Etheirys. Sir—I think it was Sir, at least—has you dive into that Omicron's memory in order to "convince" it that an attack on Etheirys would lead to the Omicron's downfall. Which you accomplish by, uh, killing it in a dream, I guess? And somehow this causes that Omicron to do a complete 180 and suddenly want to save all the people Meteion trapped in Ultima Thule (which leads into the Omicron Tribe quests).

Of course, since this is FFXIV and specifically Ultima Thule, any question of ethical ambiguity is thrown out the window. Move forward, see you feel you, etc. Also the presence of the Omicron as one of the Dead Ends strongly implies that their star(s?) is(are?) no more, and yet the threat this singular Omicron poses is played very seriously, iirc.

Also also, that same dungeon strongly suggested that many, if not all of the Omicron's alternate forms, are actually enslaved races that the Omicron conquered and converted into soulless machines. That, of course, gets glossed over too.