Perdition's Rest was, in some respects, even worse. But I'm not going to go over that again. Not when I'm already aware that my opinion will be discounted.
And by your way of viewing things, it seems you're saying that the wishes of one should outweigh the wishes of the many. That makes no sense at all. Not every life can, or even should, be saved. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. Life is not sacred, it's just an accident of evolution or - in my case - something artificially manufactured. None of us count for anything, ultimately.
Besides, it was less a case of inaction and more that their opinions on the matter were never sought out. We made those decisions on our own, without consulting them. And so taking a decision from them is exactly what we did. In the end they were a passive lot who didn't seem to care what we did or did not do. But if some alien troop came to my world and declared that they were going to kill my goddess, I would have reacted very differently, even if it did lead to eventual oblivion.
If Zymandis is right, and the multiverse must be destroyed in order for life to continue anew, and the alternative is everything eventually collapsing in on itself with no chance for life to begin again, then our actions would be destroying more lives than theirs will.
[He's not even against it, particularly. He'll do whatever ALASTAIR expects of him because that is the only way he knows how to behave, following the command of a higher power regardless of his own wishes. But from his perspective, the logic being used here is inherently flawed, and he doesn't understand it.]
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And by your way of viewing things, it seems you're saying that the wishes of one should outweigh the wishes of the many. That makes no sense at all. Not every life can, or even should, be saved. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. Life is not sacred, it's just an accident of evolution or - in my case - something artificially manufactured. None of us count for anything, ultimately.
Besides, it was less a case of inaction and more that their opinions on the matter were never sought out. We made those decisions on our own, without consulting them. And so taking a decision from them is exactly what we did. In the end they were a passive lot who didn't seem to care what we did or did not do. But if some alien troop came to my world and declared that they were going to kill my goddess, I would have reacted very differently, even if it did lead to eventual oblivion.
If Zymandis is right, and the multiverse must be destroyed in order for life to continue anew, and the alternative is everything eventually collapsing in on itself with no chance for life to begin again, then our actions would be destroying more lives than theirs will.
[He's not even against it, particularly. He'll do whatever ALASTAIR expects of him because that is the only way he knows how to behave, following the command of a higher power regardless of his own wishes. But from his perspective, the logic being used here is inherently flawed, and he doesn't understand it.]