ONI blaming everything on Halsey. when they conscripted orphans, and gave Halsey the Greenlight on the S-II program. Ackerson not getting any shit for the S-IIIs, Ackerson Kidnapping Kurt isnt as bad as Halsey kidnapping an INJURED Linda.
The Mortal Dictata states that the UNSC shouldn't flashclone entire beings. yet they let Halsey do it, Whilst neither party knew (according to Nylund) that the Flashclones would fail that fast.
The stigma of Cloning her OWN brain and creating Cortana from that. Yet it is implied that BB is just as smart as Cortana.
Go ahead, do what you want. your opinion != my problem.
Well, your first problem is you aren't arguing canon here, you're arguing with characters' subjective points of view. Of course ONI isn't going to accept their share of the blame for Halsey,
that's the entire point. Parangosky pretty neatly outlines her fiendish plan to Halsey in
Glasslands; bury her somewhere, let her take the flak for the Spartan program's more unsavory aspects. It's easy to blame a dead woman. Do you think ONI as a whole cares one whit about their role in the Spartan Program? No, to them the ends justify the means, that's a point that's been hit in every. single. piece. of Halo fiction.
Every one where ONI appears.
*First Strike: killing a defenseless Engineer because of the remote chance it could help the Covenant
*Mona Lisa: deliberately infecting human and Covenant prisoners with the Flood
*ODST: Extraction of an asset rather than repulsing an alien invasion.
*Ghost of Onyx: Hiding all knowledge of advanced alien life years before the Covenant were discovered, despite the fact that foreknowledge might have better prepared humanity
*Stomping On the Heels of a Fuss: Condemning a planet's population to death for the sake of gathering covert intelligence.
*Glasslands: arming the enemy to keep an entire race political unstable; contemplating committing genocide.
et al.
Ackerson kidnapping Kurt is completely different, because he wasn't trying to hide all of humanity's most potent weapons away from the fight; Ackerson was working (with the brass' approval) to bring Spartan-sized results in a cheaper package. From a propaganda standpoint, brave orphans avenging their parents' death also comes with more acceptable cachet.
As for them not knowing about the flashclone complications, they
all knew, Halsey especially. From Nylund (2010):
Complications: Rapid flash cloning of immense volumes of tissue induces gross DNA base-pair errors [...] although a small fraction of clones are projected to live a normal lifespan, the average half-life of the physiology in toto is 14.7 weeks.
I've informed the vice admiral that we are initiating the next phase of the project: candidate procurement.
Halsey feeling guilt about her role:
All humanity would be served... even if a tiny handful of them had to suffer for it. Still, when she turned inward and faced her complicity in this--she was revolted by what she saw.
--Nylund (2001)
Your opinion is misinformed, or misremembered, and betrays an inability to closely read or understand the source material. Doing so isn't necessary; enjoy Halo for what you want. But to argue from a point of ignorance is idiotic, so do your research first.
