Quote Originally Posted by DamianFatale View Post
Are they really destroyed though? As long as the endsinger didn't take your soul, you were reborn. It's heavily implied that the people in the source and the shards are just reincarnated into less aetherially dense forms. Technically the Ascians still live, they are just sundered. They might not remember it, but they possibly will after each return to the life stream. It seems to be when people regain memories based on hints in Endwalker.
I'd personally say so. Death of the mind, death of the identity is to me the cessation of that particular person's existence. If reincarnation does exist, if I was a super evil and terrible person whence I last lived I'm not that person anymore or guilty of their sins. Your theory doesn't hold up to me, nor do I agree with the moral implications of it. That's just my own opinion though, and I don't intend to try and have people see it my way. This thread's purpose is just to get my own feelings out there, Endwalker left me rather traumatized and I've been bottling it in.