Quote Originally Posted by Jemachu View Post
Regardless of Venat's reasoning or justification, I do not think she had the right as a single person to decide the course for the entirety of mankind based on her own beliefs. Venat has no right to act as a higher being or some sort of messianic figure to her fellow man; who is she to pass judgement? Who is she to decide the ancients right to live because of her own fears of the Plenty? This is my issue with Venat. As Emet-Selch said to Hermes in Ktisis, "Who are you to decide our fate?".

Maybe some can justify genocidal actions to themselves with the argument of the ends justify the means, but I cannot. Hermes was wrong to set a test for mankind's right to existence. Venat was wrong to pass judgement on their fate, especially whilst she withheld the stakes and vital information regarding the situation from essentially the entirety of the population. Emet-Selch was wrong to perpetuate a cycle of genocide to undo what was done to the ancients.
I would argue that what Venat did was worse. By withholding that information, she is at least partially complicit in the Ardors as well.