ST> The same way as "how do you know that all humans were destroyed".
 ST> You're basing your beliefs entirely on the sight of Midgar. I base
       No.  I'm basing my beliefs on the whole game.  I think that humans
caused more trouble than they tried to prevent it.
 ST> my beliefs on everything that happened in the game, as well as
 ST> seeing Red's decendants running through the valley - which even that
 ST> is an anomaly considering that Red was supposedly the last of his
 ST> race and was male.
       True.  How did he have children?  But, his grandfather was human.  And 
his mother and father were... of his race.
 ST> Aerith would not have conjured Holy knowing that it would have
 ST> destroyed all of humanity. She did it as a way to *save* humanity.
       She did it to save the -planet-, not humans.  Although they did expect 
humans to live, too.  Until, that is, they found out that the planet had to 
decide.
 ST> Actually you are the only one that I know of that believes the human
 ST> race was totally wiped out. To put things simply, there is not a
       Someone on this echo believes what I said happened is true.
 ST> seperate "good" or "bad" ending. There is only one ending. To believe
 ST> as you do means that the whole reason for playing the game is
 ST> worthless since no matter what you do everyone dies. I choose to
 ST> believe that Cloud, Aerith's sacrifice, and the others *did* make
 ST> a difference. Otherwise what was the use of even playing it if you
 ST> are to lose no matter what you do?
       The whole point was to enjoy the game.  You don't have to be rewarded 
a good ending for a game to actually be good.  Same with movies.  Take 
Titanic.  The ending is an unhappy one, but it's called the movie of the 
year.
       The point I'm trying to get across is that a game doesn't have to end 
in a happy note to actually be worth playing.
 ST> of what we should strive to be worthy of. You may believe that we
 ST> are worthless and deserve to eradicated like parasites. That there
       That's not what I believe.  I think they died because they caused more 
trouble than help.  Yes, there could be hope for humanity, ut if the planet 
gave up hope, it would wipe them out, like I think it did.
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