- Venator82
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I don't care. I really don't.
They very much have emotions. They just don't show them becuase they are trained not, but their emotions are the same; they were born human and their augmentations weren't as extreme as many explain or think they are, and emotions are a very prominent survival instinct in human life.
When you look at a Spartan and compare them to a real life, battle hardened soldier, the similarity is striking, therefore confirming that Spartans have as much emotion in them as any human, they just don't have the time or the tools to show it, as been said before. Plus, because of their way of life, it just might be that they are also ashamed by showing too much emotion as it they probably see it as a sign of weakness.
Examples of their emotions are actually heavily in the books, and although many take their silence and hardiness as emotionless, it's actually a sign of shock where they are deeply emotionaly disturbed, where they can do nothing but what they are used to; in this case, killing things.
If they were emotionless, they wouldn't care, wouldn't smile, wouldn't laugh, wouldn't get angry, wouldn't feel the need to avenge, wouldn't be sad and wouldn't be upset over deaths of teamates and these are all things we know Spartans have done before and continue to do in the canon (John upset over Sam Johnson, Noble over the deaths of other members of Noble, etc.). They have emotions, just do not show them.