Quote Originally Posted by Kiarin View Post
However that misses the main point of my argument: evil or not, we simply don't have neither authority nor legitimacy nor right to do as we please in Sphene's kingdom. Even if existence of Endless is in the end harmful, as long as Sphene doesn't use outside souls for her system, we have no right to intervene. What we have is the right to stop her from threatening souls outside, by force if needed. Erasing Endless within their bubble, however, is an internal affair, a decision that must be done by local legitimate authority, not by us, a hostile outside force.
And if we say that we allowed ourselves do to as we please in Sphene's realm because of situation in extremis, that makes us somewhat of a war criminals, since we were targeting civilians which has no direct effect on stopping Sphene here and now.
And Sphene didn't have the authority to transplant her country into a different plane of existence, steal the land of a different country and absorb the population into hers while eliminating most of their culture, and then making a surprise war on the nation she stole from and killing its citizens in order to power her dead. Alexandria is the hostile force here, they killed Tuliyollal's civilians in a targeted attack with no warning. The Endless aren't a culture, they're not a society, and they're not citizens. They're the projections of people who have already died and were being used as a reason to plunder all of reality of souls that aren't Alexandrian. The country of Alexandria STILL EXISTS with LIVING PEOPLE, but all everyone seems to care about is the country's overcomplicated graveyard and how it made them sad.

Any argument that "this is a them issue" is rendered moot when they are the ones who came here and brought others into their problems. They're the outsiders from a different reflection. The idea that we needed to go through proper local laws and regulations and ambassadorial bureaucracy in order to shut off the machine powering dead people from a hostile nation that is attempting to take our souls is insane.

The Endless don't even care. One NPC you can talk to is fully aware of Sphene's plan but is apathetic as to whether or not it succeeds. We go in and shut down terminals very slowly one-by-one and no one does anything or raises a voice in protest. You'd think if they had a problem, there would be more Endless left over after the terminals shut off if they had a strong enough connection, but the only ones left just wanted to make sure that books are returned to a library or had other unfinished business.