- Wolverfrog
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I don't think humanity would make for perfect guardians of life, but then neither were the Forerunners. Every race has its flaws and people who epitomise those flaws; contrarily, there are those who defy those flaws and become shining examples of what it means to be humane.
I seriously doubt humanity will ever assume the role the Forerunners meant us to have, though. One race holding autocracy throughout all life in the galaxy/universe is a dictatorship, no matter how noble the intentions.
Also, the Covenant isn't all there is out there. No doubt there are countless alien life-forms who didn't try to wipe humanity out; we bear no animosity to them. I can imagine much of the wound torn by the great war healed as all those who fought and lost in it die of old age, replaced by a more tolerant generation who haven't seen the glassing of a planet from behind a sheet of glass, or had their immediate family brutally murdered in front of them by the sword of a Sangheili.
Even less than a few months after the war we see humans who realise most of the Covenant didn't understand why they did what they did, such as Dr. Phillips. There's only so long a grudge can be held. Eventually it either gets forgotten or made redundant.
[Edited on 11.12.2011 4:14 PM PST]