Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Caitlinzulu]

I would rather not have huge moral issues in my relaxation game. Its just a game, there is no way any of us would do things rl that we choose or do ingame.

[Galvuu]

I would rather not have huge moral issues in my relaxation game. Its just a game, there is no way any of us would do things rl that we choose or do ingame.

Only slightly on-topic, but you picked a terrible game for this, sorry.
XIV's story has always touched on dark and morally gray topics.
Even the WoL has been forced to side with "lesser evils" at times (like letting Lolorito get away with a bunch of terrible stuff for the benefit of the Ala Mhigans, or cooperating with Gaius who has a history of conquest, etc etc).
DT being this happy-go-lucky place where all strife is resolved with 10 minutes of talk-no-jutsu and even the cruelest people can magically become good-doers is an exception, not the rule, as far as XIV goes.

[Chiru_Kai]

The memories are not real people.
They're AI chatbots using your grandma's voice recordings.
And they require the power of souls from actual living people to power these AI chatbots.

Which, are not even used by the actual living people. Because somehow there is no hypocrisy in deleting someone's memories from your brain once they die. Even in this culture of "you don't truly die unless you're no longer remembered"?

"questionable ethics", yeah right.
Will you be the first to sacrifice yourself so someone else can listen to an AI interpretation of their dead grandma?

If they had this culture, this system, but it was stable and self-sustaining without the need to endlessly consume souls of the living to power this system, it would just be another culture. It's weird, but they can do whatever, it doesn't affect people outside of that culture.
... but the moment that they required the souls of the living and had to kill the living people from outside of their culture, and we had to make a hard call between the memories or the actual alive people across all shards + Source... is when they lost all sympathy and had to go.

[DrForester]

We turned off a holodeck.

[SteakDriven]

What's questionable is the physics of the place - when the rest of the tower got yeeted into the Source, why didn't the whole place come tumbling to the ground?

[TheMightyMollusk]

What's questionable is the physics of the place - when the rest of the tower got yeeted into the Source, why didn't the whole place come tumbling to the ground?

Same reason Azys Lla didn't crash when we killed the Warring Triad and removed its power source.