Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
We have a right to delete the Endless because that was part of stopping Sphene who planned to kill everyone on the Source and eventually all the Reflections in order to power them. If she had her way, eventually the only people left would be Endless and then they'd slowly run out of souls to use and we'd be back to where we were before.
No, this is simply evil. We were at war with Sphene, not with the Endless. Attacking civilian targets is always a war crime. It's really not something anyone has a right to. Yet it's the main strategy that the Scions settle on immediately. As soon as they enter Living Memory they don't even try to target Sphene, they instead target the innocent civilians. And only after they've killed those do they go for Sphene herself. It's honestly pretty crazy.

Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
I have a feeling that this topic is good enough to merit its own ethics class: Ethics 407 - AI Entities
The philosophical and ethical debates and questions around AI Entities are genuinely interesting. It's why they're such a popular topic in science-fiction. It's what makes it so frustrating and disappointing that DT doesn't seem at all interested in exploring that topic beyond the most shallow and surface-level "they don't have souls so it's fine to erase them" without any real further discussion.