(11-03-2013, 12:43 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(11-03-2013, 06:34 AM)WT_Neptune Wrote: Have the Tempered Ones shown any malice or obviously immoral views, or has the Sylph dispute been an us vs them?
Other than their desire to have all other Sylphs tempered and their aggressiveness to any Walking Ones who step into their territory, they seem to keep to themselves. The quest lines don't indicate that they're particularly malicious or immoral outside of that. The dispute between the Sylphs is purely that the Tempered Ones want to show their untempered cousins the "light," so to speak, of Ramuh; for their part, the untempered Sylphs fear the Tempered Ones, as they view tempering as being brainwashed.
That said, all Primals are inherently destructive to Eorzea, at least if the Scions and Garleans are correct regarding their effect on Aether. While some are more overtly destructive and grasping (Ifrit, Garuda), all of them are destructive by their very nature -- and Tempering is a moral problem, as it does warp the mind of someone for the sole purpose of making them a permanent follower of that "god."
As a complete aside, the Sylph plotline is one I find particularly interesting, because it brings up a fair number of moral quandaries.
But humans' current way of life are also inherently destructive to the planet. In comparsion, each faction is more like separate countries disputing, nationalism deciding who is morally right.
