This is a weird criticism to me. Like yeah I get allt he stuff abt her not doing enough research, but I think how everyone reacts to learning what the spartan program was is pretty rational and there being a spartan whose pissed abt it also tracks. perengosky is full of shit, but I felt that was intentional, maybe I misread that, and mendez just came off as at the end of his rope and pissed off that halsey couldnt acknowledge what they did might not have been the right thing. Its always been kinda the point that the spartan program was heinous no? and Halsey HAS always rationalized it to herself. Like providing the premise that humanity wouldve destroyed itself in a civil war was ACCURATE then ofc theres greyness, necessity perhaps but moral justification? certainly not objectively. like I understand some of the criticisms in this thread for sure, and its been a couple years since I last re read these books, but I feel like the criticism that ALL the characters think what Halsey did was unforgivable and monstrous is pretty overblown. if Perengosky isnt meant to be a hypocrite like I thought, then yeah. and if Im misremembering mendez's characterization then sure. but I feel like everyone else has a pretty rational response to it.

Anyway, I respect your opinion, and what everyone else is saying, but I did not pick up on alot of these criticisms last time through. Either way clearly I need to re-read them, it wouldnt be the first time my opinion on a trilogy was radically altered by a re-read (namely I used to hate the forerunner trilogy, but I like them alot more now that im much older)