Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Lady_Silvermoon]

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Given your wording at the beginning, I assumed you recognized the people we attacked and the entity intent on harming us were not the same. We wiped out the Endless because a rogue AI wanted to destroy all life. The Endless have neither the ability, nor the inclination to do us harm.

That's why no argument can be made that we destroyed them to protect ourselves. They didn't have the capability to harm us. We destroyed them, because Cahcuia assured us they were disgusting. Twisted and unnatural. Something you can wipe out without feeling the least bit of guilt.

Even the argument that the AI will stop trying to save people if we leave it no one to save is immediately undercut by there still being people left on the last terminal, so wiping out the Endless while we wait for her to finish reformatting in no way, shape or form aids us in preventing the AI from draining the Source.

Emet-Selch is okay with killing the Sundered because he sees us as inferior and unnatural as Cahcuia sees the Endless. The context is different as while we are made up of the parts of his people, so there is no way he can get them back without destroying us, I can think of half a dozen ways both the Endless and the Source can get what they want without doing harm to each other because the dilemma is so poorly written and contrived. It'd be like if a society designed their pizza ovens to run off human souls and are arguing they are gonna all starve if they don't take our souls to get their pizza ovens up and running again and you're listening to this and thinking, I know of at least six different societies off the top of my head who have solved this problem already. Give me an hour and I can pop over to Ultima Thul and bring back an Omicron who can 3D print you a pizza oven that runs off electric and not human souls. And Emetion is like, "Nope, nope, nope. This is an unresolvable conflict where two groups must battle, just like in Shadowbringers. Remember Shadowbringers?" I don't recall slaughtering the Eulmoreans to demoralize Vauthry in Shadowbringers... We took care not to harm them even as they were brainwashed into attacking us. Now we just wipe out kids as they play for being "twisted and unnatural."

I'll point out one more time, the way the last zone is written, we do not wipe out these people for being a direct threat to us. They aren't. We wipe them out for being inferior.

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There would be no reason for it in the pre-Ascian days because Ancients were able to live for as long as they wanted to. Living Memory exists BECAUSE of the Sundering. And remember, he recommends we go there, so he knows about it. But I'm sure from his perspective there isn't much difference between a Sundered and an Endless. We're all just mangled bits of Ancient.