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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
They don't need to be sad or angry about it. All they need is shock and fear in the possibility of the end of their own existence, and cold hard logic is all you need for that to happen. Events that don't directly affect people, but have the potential to and are massive in scale, quick in onset and occur out of nowhere from an unknowable threat I would say would get a lot of people worried and motivated.
We have nothing that we can even remotely compare to the Covenant genocide. I find statements of "Human nature" pretty absurd as a justification for all this ultimately pointless drama. If several dozen countries and their entire populations were wiped from the face of this planet by nuclear weapons from a hostile nation, with nothing but pictures of smoldering, radioactive wastelands and ruined cities to tell of the victims, you might be right in saying that people would not necessarily be sad or angry due to the abstract destruction and distance from their own lives, logic only being capable of fathoming it where their emotions cannot grasp it - but they would be scared -blam!-less in thinking that they might be next; scared into action, rather than being righteously infuriated at the act of barbarism. They would still understand what has happened even if it doesn't register intuitively: That massive destruction has happened, and that they don't know their enemy's intentions other than the fact that they mean to destroy all of you. At that point, there are no excuses, no debates over intentions or capabilities. It has happened to others, several times, without discrimination and they are threatening you now.
You would make a better point if the story went along the lines of the UNSC and general public knowing about the Covenant's intentions for something like 10 years before they actually arrived. Knowing that Humanity is likely going to face extinction in future, but not really caring because it is too distant. However, it happened to the UNSC rather quickly from out of nowhere; colonies dropped like flies, over 850 million dead every year, and the fact that no one really knows what the Covenant's motives are beyond the fact that they leave no survivors in their path. I'm pretty sure people would be getting worried by the fact that holidays and mail services were indefinitely cancelled to a growing list of colonies over the years, and the fact that the list is getting closer and closer to home, and the fact that, you know, the news networks were telling people when a colony was destroyed along with the death toll. Given that, and the Insurrection's intelligence network (How they are supposedly able to get above the UNSC propaganda...) and the moles that they have in the UNSC, I somehow doubt that they could be so severely ignorant of the true nature of the war.