Chapter 6045 Sanctity of Life

Chapter 6045 Sanctity of Life

6045 Sanctity of Life

Ves hated how he attracted the attention of each and every councilor.

They clearly showed an elevated level of interest when he was expected to speak. It was as if his opinions carried significantly greater weight than others!

This was an absurd notion. His hard power was not great, and he did not believe his wisdom matched up against all of the other leaders of red humanity.

The main reason why he attracted so much attention was because he managed to shoot into fame by inventing a bunch of extremely useful stuff and sharing a few crazy ideas.

While Ves took pride in many of his accomplishments, that did not mean he believed could throw his weight around.

His foundation was unstable. His power base was heavily reliant on the backing of third parties. People tolerated his opinions so long as he remained useful, which was not forever.

This was why Ves never took the initiative to take advantage of his increased clout. A huge amount of interests were at stake during every session of the Interim Leadership Council.

The Expansionist Faction represented by the Limitless Provider clearly wanted to give more leeway to aggressive cultivation methods.

The Hunting Association served as an excellent positive example, but its orientation towards hunting threatening beasts constrained its appeal.

Relatively few humans were willing to become full-time hunters. They did feel an attraction towards nature and disliked the act of venturing into the wild just so they could risk their lives to hunt down dirty beasts.

There were other ways to engage in predatory cultivation that could achieve faster results, and it did not involve going on repeated legitimate hunts.

Ves had a few ideas of what that might entail. This was because he was thinking about the possibilities of predatory cultivation as well.

He did not think it was wise to share too much of his actual thoughts on this occasion.

How should he respond?

The council wouldn't give him the time to think about all of the political implications of leaning in one direction or another, so he could only form an answer that partially reflected his true opinions.

That argument seemed to sway a fair amount of councilors. At least it made it harder for those who supported greater restraint to push forth their arguments.

"I agree with Professor Larkinson." The Limitless Provider grinned. "His insights into life should be respected. Humans are neither good nor evil. We simply are. We try to encourage humans to be kind to our fellow brothers and sisters, but we cannot maintain a strong and healthy society by being generous and charitable to everyone. We recognize that we must occasionally be cruel to each other and ourselves in order to advance our power and wealth. The aliens deserve even less than that. They are locked in eternal competition against our race. Both humans and aliens are fighting to obtain greater territory and resources because we all know that if we fall behind, our extinction will not be long in coming."

The Expansionist Faction was much more cognizant about the cruelty of the competition against other aliens.

The Expansionists were obsessed with enabling humanity to thrive across the stars.

In many cases, that meant trampling on the territory and lives of a lot of alien civilizations!

Plenty of alien species had gone extinct due to humanity's relentless drive for territory and resources!

In this context, what difference did it make to allow cultivators to plunder the souls or other mystical energy from the corpses of alien bodies?

An eager expression appeared on the Limitless Provider's face. "We cannot fight the Red War by fielding duty-bound soldiers alone. Our race is too selfish for that. We can only encourage soldiers to fight against the overwhelming number of aliens that are preparing to invade our space by luring them with incentives. If that is the case, why not tempt them by permitting them to practice a cultivation method that allows them to directly grow stronger by killing our alien opponents? As long as we organize this correctly, we can mobilize a large number of volunteer soldiers to fight against the forces of the Red Cabal. The pursuit of strength will bring out the best of us no matter whether they are mech pilots or not. Even foot soldiers can become heroes as long as they spill enough alien blood!"

That was a powerful argument! Ves was a bit taken aback by the Expansionist leader's aggression!

He had to admit that there was a lot of logic behind her argument. It was true that so long as soldiers gained a means to break through their mortal limitations quickly by fighting against the aliens, they would definitely volunteer in droves! There would be no concerns about trying to maintain people's enthusiasm towards participating in a difficult war!

The Evolution Witch finally chose to weigh in herself.

"We must respect the life of other humans, but harbor contempt towards the life of aliens. We can be merciful towards our fellow brothers and sisters, but we must be ruthless in extracting the greatest value out of hostile aliens. There is a place for more predatory forms of cultivation, but they should only be practiced by a select group of humans who have earned the right to benefit from them. Even then, they must subject themselves to strict control and inspection to prevent any abuse."

"You sound as if you have already made a choice of who should be allowed to practice demonic cultivation methods." Master Goldstein commented.

"The answer is obvious. Only the New Elites are suitable to practice such methods, if they choose to do so. Linefighters, warfighters and warlords are the only humans who are in frequent contact with the native aliens. They are also the humans who most need the rapid growth in power. They are already under varying degrees of monitoring due to their special status. Furthermore, their training, discipline and combat tempering has allowed them to forge the inner strength and willpower to resist temptation."

That... was a brilliant idea. By combining demonic cultivation with an older and more established framework, it became easier and less risky to implement this new policy change.

However, the proposal did not receive universal approval.

"Is it a good idea to give humans who are most immersed in violence the ability to grow stronger by killing more enemies?"