Quote Originally Posted by Kirutsuki View Post
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.
Even if presented with another solution, I would still say that the ethical route was to shut everything down.
That 'happiness' was false. Not saying they were not happy, but due to the fact they are not real, happiness doesn't exist. Again, it's an actual living memory. It's just a person who long passed in a simulacrum, it is not real.
The kindness I mentioned is that while those memories preserve that illusion of happiness, their actual souls would never be able to move on and rest. And for them to live, living people would eventually need to be killed.
It's a Limbo, in all senses. A glorified mausoleum, where souls are unable to move on and yet live in bliss.
Shutting down is bittersweet. It is kindness, but a painful one.