Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Dorito_Burrito]

Read the terminals in Origenics and tell me that what Alexandria is doing is really okay.

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Read the terminals in Origenics and tell me that what Alexandria is doing is really okay.

It depends on which thing you mean. Recreating the process of the aetherial sea? That's fine. That doesn't actually hurt anyone or anything. What these people want to do with their own souls in the privacy of their own silo is none of my business. Some people think that they are draining resources from the star like FF7, but there is no indication of that, looks like they are only delaying the return of souls to the aetherial sea with the regulator system, not preventing them.

Attempting to cheat death? Regardless of what the game says about it, I think it's perfectly fine to search for ways to avoid dying. The cycle of life and death is treated as sacred by the game (unless the WoL dies, then we invent time travel) but it's not really sacred, it's just the way things work ever since Venat shattered the planet. If someone subs you to 100 year lifespan against your will and you're not cool with 100 year lifespan, I believe you should be able to unsub because I value freedom of choice.

Experimenting on prisoners? Definitely bad. They shouldn't have done that.

Setting up a system that requires an ever increasing number of people to die to maintain? Both stupid and bad. We could have connected them with at least three different races who'd figured out less stupid ways to be immortal, but that's not even necessary because they figured out how to put souls in memories into mechanical bodies before they figured out how to make Endless, so they moved from a method that gave people mobility and didn't destroy all life in the universe to a method that left them stuck in one location and would eventually destroy all life in the universe. They could have slapped some regulators on the service bots and they would have been good to go, no genocides necessary...

Murdering people for their lifeforce? That's bad. You shouldn't do that.

Deleting memories of the dead? More a bad idea than an immoral one given the regulator system is opt-in, people willingly signed up for it, so once again falls under not really my business.

Wiping out an entire population because you deem them unnatural and subhuman? Evil. Definitely evil. Oh wait...that was us.