actually is a bit more complicate than we did create a weapon and we did create a soul by science, what is not what we have done, it's more the weapon by itself did grow soo much that it develop a soul, but not sentient. it's animist concept that everything have a soul, a rock, a flower even a table....

anyway, i feel people get quite sensitive about a world where magic is doing weird stuff and try to put morale of our world without magic, mostly secured (yes we don't have monster roaming outside our town) and with only human.... don't try to fit morale or principe that can't fit into a world that is soo much different.
for now, we don't know how it will evolve. maybe for us that have done the hw part, it will be simply the continuation of what we have done soo far. and simply do give a new body to our partner.

ps: i will be kinda violent for one second: the whole process to create a video game is creating an universe and lifeform that don't exist from nothing... we create event where we kill tons of them, looting the body of people we did slay and such. don't you have more trouble with this? because as human being, what they do is something considered as a crime in our world.