Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Ayche]

Well, according to YoshiP the Endless aren't there to teach us that beings that feed off life are inherently evil and should be exterminated no matter what. He says they are there to get us discussing and thinking about how we will treat similar beings once tech advances to the point where we can digitally upload the human brain. So I guess I didn't miss the plot after all. I guess I'm doing what they included them in the story to get me to do. To think. To discuss. Not to blindly accept what one character strongarms the other characters into accepting to get us to the next boss fight.



https://www.thegamer.com/final-fanta...siting-future/

That is misdirection, you know very well this entire thread is not 40 pages long because people are not getting the concept of a digital ghost or a very human robot. And that quote has NOTHING to do with the fact that they eat literal souls. If the Endless were kept alive with happy thoughts and clapping your hands like tinkerbell, we would not be having this discussion except maybe that the fiction would be nonsense.

[Lady_Silvermoon]

That is misdirection, you know very well this entire thread is not 40 pages long because people are not getting the concept of a digital ghost or a very human robot. And that quote has NOTHING to do with the fact that they eat literal souls. If the Endless were kept alive with happy thoughts and clapping your hands like tinkerbell, we would not be having this discussion except maybe that the fiction would be nonsense.

Wow...so even YoshiP's statement of what they were trying to do doesn't count as what they were trying to do. Only your interpretation is the possible truth. Even though is "all vampires must be slain" really a moral we need to learn in FF14? I believe YoshiP when he says he wanted us to question what makes a person a person, but like most of DT it was poorly implemented.

And they don't eat "literal" souls. They don't even eat metaphorical souls. They require corporeal aether. No souls have ever been destroyed by the Endless. The souls are all downstairs in the vending machines being bought like soda pops.

If anyone could be said to be eating souls it's the people in Everkeep. Guess we should kill them next, huh? They might be vampires.