What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[CrownySuccubus]

If a murderer killed someone I cared about and there was a third party who knew about the intent to murder but did nothing to stop it because he or she wanted me to 'learn to suffer' then I'd quite readily have more contempt for that person than the actual murderer.

Now extend that from murder to the genocide of one's own species...and yeah, Venat's far worse than either Hermes or Meteion as far as I'm concerned.

Nope. Even in this analogy, I wouldn't agree with you. My anger is still on the murderer primarily. Yes, I'd also hate the bystander too. But hating them more than the murderer? No.

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In this case, to equivocate your analogy, we'd have to argue that:

1) The bystander attempted to stop the murderer immediately after learning their plans and lost.

2) The murderer eliminated all evidence that there was ever a crime being planned.

3) The murderer made the means of the murder impossible for any one person to stop.

4) After the murder began, several authorities were mortally wounded before they finally manage to temporarily intervene.

5) The methods of the murder have not been stopped, only postponed for an unknown amount of time.

6) The authorities decided to kill unrelated innocents and harvest their organs/bodies/whatever to not only save the victim, but the gravely-wounded authorities.

In this scenario, the bystander is definitely in the wrong for not revealing the truth in steps 2 and 6. However, to give them greater blame than the murderer who specifically created the situation is nonsensical.

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Like, I'm sorry. I don't like Venat/Hydaelyn's logic, either, but you guys are starting to go too far with the torches-and-pitchfork mob now.