Quote Originally Posted by Mnemy View Post
This also bring to mind one of the things that really fucked me up cus it conflicts so much with lot of shit that we fought Emet for.

Cahcuia's "Dont feel bad about shutting them down they are not alive" vs Emet's "I do not consider you to be truly alive. Ergo, I will not be guilty of murder if I kill you." Really took the cake for my disbelief in this expac.

If the scions in DT is written by Ishikawa THIS would be a big issue and a BIG ASS RED FLAG. The Scions would be aghast with this, Cahciua is saying they are not alive but we see it to be contradictory, There is a truth to Sphene's words that just because they're machines/programs doesnt mean they arent sentient. Even Cahciua proves this by having the sentience enough to HATE the fact that shes alive because of souls of other people. HECK EVEN THE FINAL BATTLE PROVES THIS BECAUSE WHEN WL ENTERED THE STAGE SPHENE HAS SENTIENCE AND EMOTIONS ENOUGH TO REACT AND PARTIALLY RESTORE HERSELF IN REACTION TO WL. And has everyone forgotten the Omicrons and Omega? Hello?? I would love for the game to explore the moral dilemma of this problem because it could've been so gut wrenching and excrutiatingly painful for us to shut them down if we explored this more instead of the token shoved down our throats gimmick to harvest tears from players.

IMO the issue is not even there. These people aren't people, they are basicly Memory AI. So it not like we would be killing them. HOWEVER, with Omicron lore and just, Ultimat Thule, FFXIV already esthablised that Ai and memory fragment are considered alive and concious being in canon.

So we're in a spot where AI are sentient, but only when it convinient.


Also yea compared to the Ancient, they hardly make it seem like killing the Eternal is a ethic problem, we just do it and don't even try to find peacefull solution, wich you know, even Emet tried with us even to he don't even consider us alive.