Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Carolingian]

Can't commit genocide against things that already died before.

Says who? And that's once again ignoring the philosophy that one hasn't truly died is the memory lives on.

But yes, if there's a whole society of sentient self-aware ghosts and we decide to kill all of them then that would also be considered genocide. But I'm pretty sure the summoned ghosts and zombies aren't sentient so this hasn't happened yet. It is funny though that once again there is a Hildibrand questline that handles this question of sentient zombies with more depth than Dawntrail.

As to the continued existence of the Endless putting lives at risk I'm honestly not completely convinced that's true. It seems that only the Endless who have been physically manifested consume aether. The ones that are just saved in storage don't. That's why Sphene has been manifesting less and less of them to save resources. But we don't really get to explore those other options of preserving them.

Yes, we are at war with Sphene, I agree, but even in war the targeting and murder of civilians is seen as a war crime and potential genocide. Yet in Dawntrail the targeting of innocent civilians is the main tactic of fighting the war. And we're just forced to go along with it without complaint and forced to swallow a terrible explanation that these sentient beings with their own thoughts, feelings, and desires don't actually matter and aren't actually "alive".