Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Lady_Silvermoon]

I guess this is the fundamental part of where you and I disagree because I don't think anyone should live forever to begin with, and this setting in particular has already stated multiple times that doing so is detriment to the star they live on. What we do with the Endless is justified by the simple fact that they're already dead. We're returning the stolen souls back to the normal cycle and the dead will reincarnate as is intended for all life.

By their current methods, yes. But plenty of species in the FF14 universe have implored far less stupid methods to do what they are trying to do. Memory aether is washed away in the aetherial sea, I don't see anything wrong with preserving something the universe tosses in the bin anyway. The issue was their method of preservation. There are no souls in Living Memory. The souls are sent down to the living Alexandrians. Sometimes the English translation uses "souls" to mean people, which might cause confusion. But we saw the process. If there were souls in Living Memory, there would be no problems cause ghosts can go on forever. We did not release those people's soul to reincarnate. We released their minds into oblivion.

By the way, I have no idea where you're getting your calculations about "10-1" from either unless you made that up.

Yes. I made up a number in an attempt to express that they are a diluted form of what makes up the physical bodies of the sundered. I know this because Sphene was able to get by for years on the life force of people dying naturally in her own society, so if the Endless weren't diluted that wouldn't have been possible. It could have been 100 Endless for every 1 person's corporeal aether or 1000 Endless for every one person's corporeal aether. The point is they are mind and diluted body while spirit is in a vending machine downstairs. And if each Endless needed all of a person's corporeal aether, then they'd have just been bodysnatchers, which would have also made them less fragile than they currently are.