Quote Originally Posted by ArcaviusGreyashe View Post
Y'all are still missing the point.

If your existence only depends on sucking other peoples' lives, destroying them from all planes of existence, slowly but endlessly voiding the aethereal sea, especially at a ratio of "a lot to expand your life a tiny bit more", it doesn't matter whether you are alive. You are a nuisance, and a greater evil to the world than people putting an end to your selfish existence.

Your whole argument may be interesting, but it's unrelated to the living memory ethics issue, really.
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.