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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Actually, putting a flash clone who would die is better then disappearance.
Why? Prevents long-term grief during investigation of disappeared children (many families would not have the resources to do an in-depth search, thus NEVER knowing what happened to their children.), and allows the family closure. When the flash clone dies, they grieve, and more on as normal.
"Take it like a man?" What? You mean the UNSC should have sacrificed FAR more servicemen and civilians to fight a costly civil war against extreme rebels willing to NUKE and ruin the lives of ENTIRE COLONIES?
Come on, 75 families having to go through a period of grief is the MORAL high ground compared to the rebels -blam!- murdering an entire UNSC crew (who did no hostile actions), and later setting off a nuke in the middle of a colony. I'm willing and able to look up the causality numbers for that action.
The ends do NOT justify the means.
You do know the UNSC is like a one world government? The UNSC DID have a part to play in the creation of the Rebels. It was many of the UNSC policies (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Far_Isle) which caused the "innies" to start taking more drastic measures. Im not saying all the Rebels are innocent, there not, some are terrorists and deserve to die. However when a government has a problem with their citizens, you don't kidnap children and do those horrible things to them that i stated earlier. And yes i expect them to have to sacrifice more UNSC soldiers, if it comes to either that, or creating the Spartan program, because THAT'S THERE JOB. These soldiers knew what they were getting in to when becoming apart of the military, they knew that there could come a day when they would die for the UNSC. But this is not a kids job, that's also why i don't believe in the concept of using child soldiers.
Your idea of wanting to do certain "things", in the name of saving more lives is a SLIPPERY SLOPE. For example, what if the UNSC finds a way to extend the life of a flash clone, and somehow make a way to use these clones on the battlefield. Is it ethical for the UNSC to produce mass amounts of these clones (being created to fight and die), in the name of saving lives of "normal" humans? Why not? There are many more examples that i could list, but you should get the point. If the UNSC always uses the "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" approach for their problems, the UNSC would become something that doesn't deserve to be saved from the Rebels.
I do think that the UNSC could have found a better way in dealing with the Rebels then capturing kids. Now if you don't think like that, and believe the UNSC has to fall further into depravity/moral corruption, to win the civil war, then i pity you.
[Edited on 07.28.2011 7:13 PM PDT]