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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Well, enemies have had a habit of allying with each other for some time now in our history.
In that case though, was it ever a respectful thing to do towards those who had been killed previously by those enemies? Maybe a case by case basis should be adopted.
Posted by: ElementL09
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. They have/had to work together whether they like it or not.
Again, it is sort of the same I think, in the sense that I wonder if such a philosophy is an affront to those that were killed by a previous enemy.
Posted by: ElementL09
The Sanghelli at least respect Humanity more then the prophets do.
Only 4 showed those feelings really.
Posted by: ferrrari
They both killed lots of each other, it's fair...
It most certainly is not. Self defense from unprovoked genocide is hardly immoral, nor is self defense in general. I bet US troops have killed more Taliban than the Taliban have US troops, but that does not in anyway absolve the Taliban of anything. Your argument of body count determining who was right in the war would however.
Posted by: OrderedComa
Some characters will most definitely not like it, but no, I don't think it would be. It's almost the same scenario as the U.S. and other nations in Western Europe helping out West Germany after WWII was over.
I am trying to think of a reason for why this would be the case though. I don't think there is.
People were killed for simply being Human, and the Sangheili enjoyed doing it for the most part. (The idea that the Sangheili have in any way a respect, an admiration or any sort of positive feelings for Humanity at all is a fan made myth. Short reason as to why: Conversations from the Universe is a discussion between 2 Elites only. Add Zhar [From The Cole Protocol] and Reff [From Bloodline] to this and you only have 4 Elites that ever showed anything other than complete and utter hatred, hubris and disgust towards Humans. If there is anything that points to the contrary I would like to see it. For each of those 4 unique Elites, we easily have 2 or 3 that heavily despised Humans. [eg Xytan, Ripa, Thon, Orna, Jora. The list goes on, but we have more Elites that showed hatred than those who showed respect and admiration]) Anyway, back on track. The Sangheili are not showing any indication that they are truly sorry for what they did after Halo 3 either, or these so called feelings of respect. So they did choose to follow a doctrine against their reasoning faculties, killed billions with utter hatred, and then after it neither regretted it nor changed their feelings towards their victims. I think that the last two though in particular makes an alliance quite iffy really. If the Sangheili changed their outlook then it would not be so bad.
This is equivalent to a group of Nazis, who still believe that Jews are inferior, and who view their atrocities as noble or just plain don't care about what they did, being protected or treated with respect or offered hospitality by the Israeli government. It would be a disgrace to the victims of the camps, as well as not making any sense.