Quote Originally Posted by Zabuza View Post
Yes, they all express being okay with dying when we arrive and yes, it is all done for the express purpose of trying to make us, the person sitting behind the screen, feel okay with deleting these people. It is very strange when Shadowbringers told us that 'genocide is not okay, no matter how understandable the reasoning' to Dawntrail's 'No matter how unsettling it is, there are certain circumstances in which genocide is okay.'
Endwalker also had a fair amount of "artificial recreations of lives are still lives" in the Omicron quests. The idea of artificial life in general still counting as life goes back to at least Stormblood with Alpha and Omega's storyline, further back still if you want to count examples like the ixal being Allagan creations.