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Posted by: I Judge Bread I
The Spartan program was completely unethical, the end does not justify the means in the slightest.
At least Spartan IV takes volunteers as opposed to kidnapping kids and forcing them into scientific experimentation that killed or crippled a good chunk of them.
So, you'd rather humanity pretty much drive itself to extinction and into a second set of Dark Ages leaving billions upon billions dead in its wake due to a very small minority of the population not getting exactly what they want and throwing a hissy-fit over it and going around killing and slaughtering civilians to try and force what they want to happen be allowed to run rampant. I'm sorry but the actions being committed by the Insurrection completely and totally justifies the creation of the Spartan IIs, it doesn't make it something good, but it's something that had to be done to ensure the survival of humanity. Without the Spartans the vast majority of humanity's 39+ billion population would be left dead and there would be no infrastructure or anything left, humanity would be left in another Dark Age and pretty much have to rebuild itself from the Stone Ages once again.
It seems you don't know what "experimentation" is as you're misusing the term and trying to describe something where it doesn't apply. No humans were experimented on at all, monkeys, chimps specifically, are what all of the augmentations used on the Spartans were tested on. If you know what the results are going to be and aren't seeking to create or find new results, it's not really an experiment. The augmentation process was not in any way shape or form an experiment, that's misusing the term. And you know what, so what if they died or were crippled? They were all fixed afterward by Halsey or worked to be fixed up and revived, even if they couldn't be fielded as a Spartan. They were healed and fixed as much as they possibly could be and given the chance at a normal life again. If they were all just left as they were inured and dead, you would have grounds to complain...but you don't because the washouts of the augmentations were all fixed afterward.