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"Sometimes life gives you lemons, and then you have to say 'f**k the lemons' and bail."
If you're reading this, you need to stop stalking me. If you can't stop stalking me, you might as well go here.
I have to admit, I had higher hopes for you guys. Then again, after seeing so many people in this forum claim that Jorge was a "good" character, I should have seen this coming.
Halsey is a war criminal, as are Mendez, Parangosky, and every other willing participant in the SPARTAN-II project.
I made a thread about this a while back, and it went over a lot of people's heads. It's probably the same reason my favorite novel is Contact Harvest, it shares parallels with real life current events. The Insurrection is essentially a parallel to modern terrorism, only in the Halo Universe, the Insurrection's gripes are legit, and their demands doable.
Halsey had an ego so large that it's a surprise the universe could physically contain it. Given her attitude toward Ackerson, her possessiveness of her work, and her need to try and be involved in everything, it's a shock that she ever felt guilt to begin with.
If she had been truly doing everything for the sake of humanity, and not her own self-interests, wouldn't you think she'd be a bit more forthcoming with her work? When faced with the truth that there had been another Spartan program done without her knowing, she seemed more so offended that they had used her work and replicated her program rather than that she'd been kept in the dark about it.
"Blah blah blah, Covenant War," some of you might say. Funny that Halsey's actions can only truly be justified/rationalized in hindsight. Years had gone into planning the SPARTAN-II project; well before the Covenant War, and if anyone paid attention to her journal, before the Insurrection had been exacerbated with the use of nuclear weapons.
She wanted free reign to do whatever the hell she felt like: she was a monster.
This only seems new because everything we've seen of her so far has been either from her own perspective, or that of a SPARTAN-II, who all idolize her.
If this is really the first time some of you have thought of this, I kind of wonder how you manage the parts of the books that aren't all 'pew pew, boom!'.