Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Lady_Silvermoon]

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Thank you for answering my question. You and I are actually in the same place when it comes to "plan of action." I just feel like the story skips over step 1: Attempt to resolve the issue peacefully due to a stated disgust factor. They are twisted and unnatural and I take issue with that. It wasn't that we tried for a peaceful solution and failed, we didn't bother with a peaceful solution because we deemed them an inferior form of life, not worth the trouble. And I found that messed up.

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My question wasn't because I believed that was something that could happen or should happen, my question was to see if she was okay with killing them due to self-defense or the disgust factor the game actually gives as our reason for ending them. After all, I don't usually stop for ice cream when acting in self-defense. Our attack on the populace was preemptive in order to destabilize their leadership. After all, deleting the Endless in no way changed what happened next. Sphene was still talking to them as she fought us which means she didn't even notice they were gone.

As for how could a person with connections to people with knowledge of Allag, Sharlayan, Omicron and future technology possibly solve a problem the Alexandrians couldn't solve? Well, the Alexandrians were idiots. They got conquered by a lizard with a pointy stick. And if you try to argue that no, she made an alliance with the lizard with pointy stick. Well, she gave him complete and sole control of her military, so...still an idiot. It's actually less tragic if he'd simply managed to conquer them. We also defeated their super advanced military in like an afternoon...

They created a Living Memory so no one would ever have to experience loss again, but instead of letting people visit their dead loved ones, they instead kept them completely separate and just deleted the memory of the dead loved ones. Even if you're as a fragile as an empty egg and can't handle the slightest bit off loss, these two systems are redundant. Either keep everyone alive OR make everyone forget their dead. But they do both, because they are dumb.

Alexandrians have the ability to put souls and memories in machines. They have a way to keeping a soul and memory with the machine in the case of the machine's destruction with regulators. They have a way of projecting a person's appearance over them machine. And given what she says about older models not having regulators that means they've already installed regulators on newer models. And they came up with that FIRST. Which means they had a way of preserving people that didn't require life force and allowed complete freedom of movement instead of being stuck in one location, and they went with a dumber plan that would eventually end all life in the universe instead.