Quote Originally Posted by OMGJesuis66 View Post
Honestly, I am on a very personal level, in agreement with how the events in Living Memory unfolded.
Those people were already dead, they relieve memories as stored Data in a Machine, their aspirations only exist based on past memories and they are *unable* to develop beyond what was coded.
Their hopes and dreams were the same hopes and dreams once they were alive, they could not make new ones, Sphene did, and she became an anomaly, which is why she had to erase her own memories to break the strings that held her back from achieving her primary function. It is all code and AI, and as the name stated for the place: It is a Living Memory.

There is no other solution. The ethical solution is to shut everything down, to let those people rest and move on, for they are to rejoin the Aetherial Sea and their souls will become someone new as they live again. That is THE BEST possible outcome for those people, what happened in that place was a massive tragedy akin to nature. Which is why Cachiua states that all things die. But those people there, are not alive. They have been dead for thousands of years. To allow the natural course of life to follow is only kindness to those.
But we act as the judge, jury and executioner, without any question or proper understanding that that is the case. We just trust Cahciua on her word that this is the only solution.
What I mean by this is that I understand with your point of the Endless being just lines of code and I agree, but we never confront an Endless to make the distinction clear.
Erenville was the closest of the bunch that I related to because he wasn't treating Cahciua as just lines of code.

Let me ask you this, if a solution is found later. Someone just comes in and asks "why didn't you do this or that?" and it would have kept all in Living Memory alive and not force Sphene to invade other Reflections.
Do you think you could stand on the side that this was an ethical solution, when you stopped someone from meeting their son or a loved one in the afterlife?
Why was Krile & her parents or Cahciua allowed to have their dreams fulfilled? Isn't that quite selfish?

I would never say that it was only a kindness to those memories, unless I specifically saw that they were actually suffering from this existence. They knew what they were and they seemed all really happy.