Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
Exactly. Sphene is the poor man's emet-selch. Where as Emet could conceivably bring his old world and people back in some form at the expense of the current one, all Sphene could do is massacre innocents to keep her digital theme park afterlife running that much longer. Plundering other worlds for souls, because it requires souls and not just aether to power, and not stopping to think about the sustainability issue when she runs out of shards to steal from.

This is not a moral quandry with two valid outcomes, it's a bad situation where we have to do something unpleasant but completely necessary to stop Sphene from going to going to other shards and killing people to steal their souls for battery juice. All the while the number of endless to sustain only grows and grows and grows because she will not or can not let go.
There's seemingly people that do this kind of thing every expansion. I'm remembering the thread about Endwalker and Venat being a psycho. People will argue with you based on the writers not establishing absolutely labyrthine rules or forgetting to wrap up a plot line and see if they can get you to admit that the main characters are comparable to fascists.