Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Turtledeluxe]

I also do not believe we have the right to wipe out the spirits in the aetherial sea, do you? I agree they are not alive, but I don't think being dead erases personhood and then gives me the right to do with the dead whatever I want. Alive or dead, they were sentient beings whose existence we were ending. I don't really have a "you had your chance" policy when it comes to wiping out societies.

You can frame it as wiping out a society all you want. That's not what the intention was. The games gonna go on, telling the same story, and your outrage isn't going to change it.

Thank goodness no one in real life judges things this way with such blatant disregard for context.

And yes, I'd wipe out spirits any time and any place if the only way to sustain those spirits is soul aether. Period end of story. There is no alternative fuel source. Humans in XIV are composed of memory and soul aether. That's the whole point. there is no alternative.

Also regarding the Sundering, the writers clearly tell you that meaningful change cannot occur as a result of the Elpis visit. And no the raids don't disprove this, because they hadn't happened yet in the story. Elidibus clearly spells out that nothing can disrupt the timeline we are already on. The writers may make mistakes and maybe even ignore their own time travel rules, but it's commonly understood we were never going to change anything regarding Meteion no matter who or what tried.