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| Re: Is that your best response? | |
| Posted By: Metalingus627 <mtracy627@yahoo.com> | Date: 3/6/10 3:48 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Is that your best response? (scarab) : Now you are wandering into non-game sources. None of that was apparent whilst : I played the games. And the Chief was not responsible for his kidnap and : abuse. The Arbiters' glassing of planets is also a non-game source. In fact, the only planet we know he is responsible for is Reach. : The Arbiter performed his monstrous deeds under his own volition. he knew
So the Elites are worthy of nothing less that absolute destruction yes? Even though we couldn't have possibly have won the war without their help. The Arbiter may have been responsible for the deaths of millions after being preached a lie his entire life, but in Halo 2 he was the one who made it possible to halt Halo's activation, and therefore saved trillions of lives, human, covenant, and any other sentience residing in the galaxy. : And do not try to conflate or confuse the Chief's killing of combatants and
The Chief took orders from an oppressive government and enforced them on people who wanted to be free from that oppression. Also, the Spartans blew the airlock on that Innie asteroid colony. No doubt there were children on that asteroid, and some, if not all of them, were killed as a result, yes? John also did this twice, abandoning the asteroid to the Covenant during First Strike. We see in Contact Harvest the futility and the horror behind the Insurrection, and what measures the UNSC has taken to quell it that were equally horrific. The Spartans aren't as innocent as you would like to think, even if they were just taking orders. : I didn't find him worthy, I found him contemptible and I had no concern for
His whole story is about his redemption. Is he guilty? Yes, but he also saved the galaxy, and later assisted in saving it again. He is still guilty of his sins, yes, but by the end of Halo 3 he has found some small measure of redemption.
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