Posted by: OrderedComa
Being silent is just Chief's character, he is truly just a man of few words.
Until you procure proof he is silent just "because he is cool" as you so delightfully put it, and there really is no emotional impact on the things he has gone through, that of everything he is done, everything he has seen, everything that has happened to him in his fretfully war-torn life, has had absolutely no emotional impact on him what so ever, I'll take that as your personal opinion. Why that is your opinion I have no idea, because as I recall in Fall of Reach, as Master Chief watches the coffins of his Spartan brothers being jettisoned into space, he feels as though a part of him is being torn away, or something along those lines.
You see. He feels. He feels. He is not devoid of emotion. I am 100% convinced that by the end of Halo 3, he is not the same he was when the war started. I guarantee it. You don't come out of something like that without scars. Every soldier has scars. I'm tired of people treating Master Chief like an inhuman monster, he is not so, he is super-human, super-human, meaning he is still human, and he will still be emotionally effected by the deaths of his SPARTAN brothers, even if in First Strike he found others. It doesn't change the fact of Sam's death, Grace's death, and many others. Their images of them dying will be bored into his skull for the rest of his life. Soldiers are always effected by the deaths of their comrades. Just because he is conditioned, doesn't mean he is devoid of emotions.
Just as a "P.S.", if he were some inhumane killing machine, who's only goal in life was to take life, I would offer him no respect, no human sympathy, no emotional attachment, and I would not care if he were to die, should he die, but I would not give him his due, no matter how much he had done, because what is the point of protecting humanity if you lose your humanity in the process? There is none. You are no longer someone of value, and you are an inferior organism, no matter how many augmentations or genetic enhancements, or "luck" you may have.
[Edited on 05.08.2011 2:26 AM PDT]