Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
Here's the thing, if someone suggested we kill every single Garlean so Varis would have no reason to conquer the Source, not only would we refuse to do it, we'd think that person was a monster. However, with the Endless, the characters pout a little, grumble about it being hard, but they still wipe out an entire people between boat rides and ice cream and the reason for that is because they are deemed an inferior form of life.
You're comparing apples to oranges and the scenarios are completely different.

The Garleans are normal, mundane people comparatively with just one life to live. The Endless have already lived and died and are then brought back into an artificial afterlife after the incorporeal parts of their being are processed in a factory and then require the souls of others to keep going. But the civilization the Endless came from still exists. Alexandria is right there, no one on the Source is threatening their existence, and they are free to continue on. Turning off the terminals to save the world doesn't endanger the country they came from, no one at all is affected by their loss, and none of them even die in the traditional sense since they have already died before and have been on borrowed time.

The living Alexandrians don't even remember the Endless, they just know that when you die you go to the cloud but they have no memories of the individuals. That was the whole point of us interacting with them instead of just going straight to the terminals (also to pad out the zone). Their own families and loved ones won't remember them when they're gone and they don't remember them now, but at least we can if no one else will. They had no interactions with the living world at all except for one Turali expat who remote-controlled a robot.

The situation sucks and tough situations make writing more compelling, but this is not at all like killing a whole civilization of living people because not only is the rest of their civilization carrying on just fine without caring about them at all, they were already dead to begin with.