"No, they aren't gods. Not as traditional liturgy would concieve of them anyway." They aren't conscious beings, mostly. They don't need worship, just food. Every religious trapping given to them by cults is because it helps humans to conceive of them.
"You could start using that power with the best intentions in the world, and it would corrupt you. You would become something monstrous. And trying to decide who is 'bad' enough is a terribly dangerous idea, one which would slide over time. If feeding on say... a serial killer is acceptable, then what about someone who has killed 2 people? Is one murder more acceptable somehow than many? What if it was self-defence? Someone is still dead. What about other terrible harms? And then eventually you're hungry and there is no-one 'bad' around, so you think... well, I've done good things with this power, haven't I? I have helped people with it, and I have punished the wicked, so don't I deserve to feel sated? Don't these people owe me? What can it hurt?"
And that's assuming you're even thinking by that point. He knows he hadn't entirely been; it had been instinct. But it had still been his voice.
"The prophecy tablet is a relic of an entity so whatever it told you would likely be skewed. And the cameras, the eyes are... manifestations of the Eye. That's all."
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"You could start using that power with the best intentions in the world, and it would corrupt you. You would become something monstrous. And trying to decide who is 'bad' enough is a terribly dangerous idea, one which would slide over time. If feeding on say... a serial killer is acceptable, then what about someone who has killed 2 people? Is one murder more acceptable somehow than many? What if it was self-defence? Someone is still dead. What about other terrible harms? And then eventually you're hungry and there is no-one 'bad' around, so you think... well, I've done good things with this power, haven't I? I have helped people with it, and I have punished the wicked, so don't I deserve to feel sated? Don't these people owe me? What can it hurt?"
And that's assuming you're even thinking by that point. He knows he hadn't entirely been; it had been instinct. But it had still been his voice.
"The prophecy tablet is a relic of an entity so whatever it told you would likely be skewed. And the cameras, the eyes are... manifestations of the Eye. That's all."