Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[TheMightyMollusk]

Cahcuia is no different than Fandaniel when he said he wanted to die and take everyone with him. Selfish.

"These people need to be stopped from stealing the souls of entire worlds" is equal to "I want to wipe out all life in the universe because reasons". Sure.

[AlysCamoa]

"These people need to be stopped from stealing the souls of entire worlds" is equal to "I want to wipe out all life in the universe because reasons". Sure.

“These people,” except none of them have any agency in the actions committed by their monarch, even if those actions are done to perpetuate their own lives. Remind me why we cared about anyone in Alexandria, again? Why we wasted time learning how they farm instead of just cutting our way through the city to reach Zoraal?
I know the writer said we don’t do these things because we’d rather put Tuliyollal- full of civilians who just suffered one sudden attack- at risk again. But I’m asking under your logic as you’ve just proposed it:If any action take against Alexandrians is justified by Sphene’s intentions, then why should we not kill our way to Zoraal, and then the Meso Terminal?

[Bright-Flower]

“These people,” except none of them have any agency in the actions committed by their monarch, even if those actions are done to perpetuate their own lives. Remind me why we cared about anyone in Alexandria, again? Why we wasted time learning how they farm instead of just cutting our way through the city to reach Zoraal?
I know the writer said we don’t do these things because we’d rather put Tuliyollal- full of civilians who just suffered one sudden attack- at risk again. But I’m asking under your logic as you’ve just proposed it:If any action take against Alexandrians is justified by Sphene’s intentions, then why should we not kill our way to Zoraal, and then the Meso Terminal?

For starters, the civilians in Heritage Found/S9 were not being kept alive by a machine that requires killing innocent people and harvesting their souls to survive.

[EriShvakh]

just cutting our way through the city to reach Zoraal?

Why are you comparing AI powered memories to actual living people in the city? Especially considering that good part of them are Tuliyollal people that got hit by the dome.

[TheMightyMollusk]

“These people,” except none of them have any agency in the actions committed by their monarch, even if those actions are done to perpetuate their own lives. Remind me why we cared about anyone in Alexandria, again? Why we wasted time learning how they farm instead of just cutting our way through the city to reach Zoraal?
I know the writer said we don’t do these things because we’d rather put Tuliyollal- full of civilians who just suffered one sudden attack- at risk again. But I’m asking under your logic as you’ve just proposed it:If any action take against Alexandrians is justified by Sphene’s intentions, then why should we not kill our way to Zoraal, and then the Meso Terminal?

I don't recall saying anything like that, but: Zoraal Ja is dead before we ever learn that Living Memory or the Meso Terminal exist. We spent that part of the arc thinking we were helping Sphene rebel against him. It's not until after he's dead that she declares she's going through with the dimensional merge anyway. And at that point, there's no reason to go through Solution 9, because Sphene isn't there anymore. So the living Alexandrians aren't even a factor in that part of the final arc. So, no, there was never a justification to go on a killing spree through the city.