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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...
Poll: If it were your choice, would you do it? (Read entire post first) [closed]
Total Votes: 15
I wasn't sure where to put this, since it pertains to the entire Halo series...so I thought it belonged here, but if not please move it to the proper forum.
In the first Halo, 343 says to the Master Chief,
Why would you hesitate to do what you have already done? Last time you asked me, if it were my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. We must activate the ring.
This got me thinking...what would you do it, if it were your choice? Now, you'll all probably say "no" because it destroys all life in the galaxy. But lets take a look at both sides of the argument...
The Flood is highly adaptable and can spread at an alarming rate. In just a few hours it can learn all the motor functions of its host, and within a day it is able to pilot vehicles and command starships...once the Forerunners failed to contain the outbreak, there was no hope. The flood would spread throughout the entire galaxy and turn every species, present and future, into a flood hive. The only way to stop the flood is to starve them to death, to freeze their expansion so that they can not expand any farther. And the only way to do this is to destroy the host itself, IE sentient life.
So, the forerunners built the Halo's to kill all life for perhaps a few hundred thousand years, but to ultimately save all life in the future from the flood. And it had apparently been working; the Halo's fired, and the flood were again confined to the Halo's...until the Covenant came along. So what do you say now? Is the killing of all life in the galaxy justified by saving the future of the galaxy, or is it so barbaric that there is no justification for such a thing, even a flood outbreak?
If it were my choice, would I do it?