The source of all knowledge suddenly placed in mortal hands?

In my story draft, I have a dramatic scene, where a goddess of an alien planet seems all powerful, until two mortals come across the source of all knowledge- which happens to be an organic computer. Since the computer is somehow connected to the mind of the goddess in question, and the mortals are wondering whether to either keep or destroy the computer, one of the mortals plans to use the knowledge for evil. The other mortal worries a lot about the psychological impact that destroying the same computer would do to the natural balance of the alien world in question and to her own creator.

Since in either scenario, the goddess in question loses her powers, is it a rather Pyrrhic victory for all?

edited 3rd Oct '16 11:05:28 PM by sabrina_diamond

A Pyrrhic victory is where you achieve your original goal, but at an unmanagable cost.

Set out to conquer the nation over yonder but you lose 1,000,000 soldiers in the process. Something like that.

The source of all knowledge being destroyed isn't a Pyrrhic victory for the guy planning to use it for evil.

Conceivably the other guy destroying it to keep it from being used for evil could count, depending on what "the natural balance of the alien world" means and what her creator has to do with anything.

Need I say that the goddess is also the creator of the second mortal and that that goddess also controls the balance of nature on the alien planet?

edited 5th Oct '16 4:53:19 AM by sabrina_diamond