It was about time we got a proper insight into the main villains of this game and I quite enjoyed the way it was handled overall. However there's something that bothers me about it.

Before the level 80 dungeon, Emet Selch gives you a massive "the reason you suck" speech, to which we react by collectively staring at the floor, apparently having zero counter arguments. Emet turns to leave, and it's only then that Alph responds... with a really corny, poorly thought out retort.

What bothers me is that Emet's logic is deeply flawed for a few reasons, yet the party seems to be incapable of seeing it. "Our lives have value, too" is a dumbest possible argument you can offer a guy who - as he explained earlier - doesn't even consider you to be truly "alive"

In particular, there are 2 arguments the characters could have made to establish how hypocritical the Ascians' thinking is

1 Emet kept talking about how the current humanity keeps creating discord and war... even though pretty much every. single. conflict. we've dealt with in this game so far was perpetrated by the Ascians. He's blaming a tree for falling over, while still holding the saw he used to cut it down. There's no telling what the 13 worlds would look like today had the Ascians not kept founding warmongering empires and causing massive calamities. Humanity creating discord and war is a self-fulfilling prophecy only because the Ascians themselves make it so.

2 Somewhat related to the first point, I highly doubt the civilization of the original humanity popped up over night. Odds are they took eons upon eons to develop, meaning there's no reason why this current humanity couldn't reach the same stage of development as well.