Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
The comparison to a life support device is inaccurate. A Life support doesn't require attaching itself to a perfectly healthy individual and slowly killing them to sustain someone. The Endless are a parasite, much like ticks or fleas and while technically living beings, their way of life is deemed as problematic due to their requirement of needing a living host to survive. It's not that much different from Parasitic Twin Syndrome, where the only treatment for it is to extract the parasitic twin from the dominant twin in order to ensure survival of the dominant twin. It's not a happy situation but a necessity to ensure survival and little more.
Or you could like... get rid of the parasitism, since in this case that is merely a consequence of Sphene having a very inefficient method of keeping the Endless going. Their dependence on outside energy and living aether is only something they are afflicted with due to one particular technological paradigm. We know the Omicrons did storing minds as data better, and we still have access to their civilization in Ultima Thule.

Your argument that what the game made us do was the only solution under those circumstances, is conceptually no different from saying that the only way to rid us of a curable affliction is to kill all the patients.