Quote Originally Posted by Arzalis View Post
On the topic of us deleting them being a "mercy", that simply wasn't our choice to make. We asked like three people out of potentially thousands or more. Outside of one potential dialog option that gets glossed over, no one even really questions it.
In gameplay terms, it's simply not feasible to ask every single person, even among the, at most, hundred or so that were active in Living Memory. In story terms, we still had to deal with Sphene trying to initiate interdimensional fusion, so we didn't have time. (Yes, I know, the game's time scale moves as fast as we complete quests, not on any actual visible timer outside of instanced duties. Story-wise, though, we still had that timer, it just wasn't visible to us as players.)

To address the other points:

For one: you've now completely changed arguments. You were basically claiming they were evil and deserved to be deleted. Now you're saying they weren't alive anyway, so it doesn't matter.
No, my point has been the same either way; There was no other choice. If they're alive, they're complicit, because it's made clear they all knew they were consuming souls; if they're not alive, it doesn't matter. Trying to reframe my arguments doesn't actually change them.

Two: The game itself says you're wrong here. The whole point of the shades in the capstone quest for the EW societies is that they are, in fact, alive. Their existence is different, but they are no less deserving of it than anything or anyone else. The Endless are essentially the same (not that these writers knew about or considered that quest) to the point I struggle to see much difference. In the context of that questline, what we're doing at the end of DT seems downright cruel.
The difference is that the peoples in Ultima Thule aren't consuming other dimensions to sustain their existence. That's kind of a big deal.

Yes, the original Omicrons did conquer and assimilate other worlds, and they're all dead now. We could argue whether the recreated ones in UT deserved a second chance, but that seems like a separate discussion.

Three: If we take both of your arguments as you've presented them, you're contradicting yourself now. You were essentially trying to make the argument that all the Endless are evil for being complicit in genocide, but if they aren't alive, they aren't capable of making choices based on morality. You need to explain how something can simultaneously not be alive and also be evil and/or make any moral judgements.

You shifting arguments here has kinda hurt your point because you can't really claim both.
Again: If they're alive, they're complicit, and if they're not, they're parts of a genocidal machine. There was no shift.