What happened to SB (story)?

[Chiramu]

We fought against the Garleans because they're genocidal conquerors that tried to destroy a continent by throwing a moon at it. We'll have to eventually force the Empire into disarmament or they'll just continually rebuild and invade, over and over again. They tried conquering Eorzea 3 times between Silvertear Falls and the end of 2.0 alone.

And now we will be the genocidal conquerors if we push further to kill them. I wonder why no one is thinking of that point? Is it different because you have the Garleans demonised in your brains?

[Daralii]

And now we will be the genocidal conquerors if we push further to kill them. I wonder why no one is thinking of that point? Is it different because you have the Garleans demonised in your brains?

Who said anything about genocide against the Garleans as a people? The Empire should be dismantled, but we've worked alongside Cid, Nero, Lucia, Regula, and Gaius knowing full well that they were purebloods.

Of the legatii, Solus, and the noble houses, the only people we know of that actually opposed Project Meteor were Varis(on unknown grounds) and Gaius(because he wanted the glory of conquest), and that support continued even after the first test incinerated a Garlean city and killed everyone inside. Why would anyone in Eorzea or Othard have any reason to believe those people will decide to keep to themselves? Things could be different under Varis, but we don't know enough about his morals to conclude that. Especially when he allowed his son to be used as a test subject.

[TankHunter678]

And now we will be the genocidal conquerors if we push further to kill them. I wonder why no one is thinking of that point? Is it different because you have the Garleans demonised in your brains?

If you automatically equate invasion with genocide then the Garleans are genocidal monsters that need to be put to the sword because of their invasion, subjugation, and enslavement of the nations surrounding their homeland and did not even stop there, working to seize the entire continent they are on and when the going got tough because of the primal threat their response was to drop a moon on it knowing full well it would result in the complete annihilation of all life in eorzea. With the only people against it wanting to conquer Eorzea so they could ship its inhabitants across the sea in every direction to be used as frontline fodder in further invasions across the globe on any undiscovered landmasses in their goal of taking over the entire world for just pureblood garleans to live in.

Us doing a retaliatory invasion of them is just standard politics. If you stretch it a little you can find some parallels to World War 2 in the current state of the story. Not to mention that Garleans who are peaceful are generally accepted by Eorzeans. So us going in and being all genocidal is purely locked up in your head because you want an excuse to ditch the people who have only been fighting defensively to reclaim their own land and the land of their allies.