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> Everything he does is to save his own skin.
Thel doesn’t act in his own interests most of the time, and from what I’ve seen he acts in his own interests none of the times when it comes to the big decisions he has made since becoming Arbiter. An individual who was tasked with carrying the mantle of Arbiter as a sacrificial pawn of the Hierarchs by definition cannot act in their own interests.
Beyond that initial role, electing to spare Earth at the risk of Flood contamination and at a very probable risk to his future leadership doesn’t suggest to me someone who is motivated by trying to save their own skin.
When one looks at his decision to promise peace with humanity and how that was unpopular enough to put his life in constant danger from constant assassination attempts to outright rebellions that almost saw his leadership ended, I’m again confused at where you are stretching this from.
> The moment The Arbiter demands anyone’s head is the moment Humanity demands his head for the millions upon millions of people he murdered in the name of hypocrisy.
In the name of hypocrisy? Do you mind explaining where you got that from, and what that even means?
> That Joker has no business demanding anything.
The terms that Hood and Thel agreed to were for each to leave each other alone, rebuild and leave the past behind. I don’t recall that there was a clause that allowed the UNSC to break that settlement on the basis of revenge or morality, so he does have the right to demand answers and action for that specific agreement being broken especially given that he has kept to his end of the agreement.
In practical terms, he represents the interests of many innocent Sangheili who were unaffiliated with the war. He is morally obligated to protect them from being slaughtered by ONI’s special brand of morality which is just as bad as the one the Sangheili have just left behind.
> The Arbiter needs to face justice. I really hope he dies at the hands of ONI. Humanity can do better
No, humanity cannot do better. No other Covenant leader has been shown to be both as willing and as capable as Thel in being able to lend help to the UNSC should they need it; he provides a strong and co-operative bulwark against the likes of Jul 'Mdama, ex-Covenant Loyalists and marauding warlords and pirates; no one else has approached the UNSC offering Covenant information archives and Covenant weapons experiments and research.
The Arbiter facing justice is what the cold and uncaring universe would call a luxury for the human race, a luxury that said species can ill afford to indulge in.
> but someone has to be held accountable for what happened
No they don’t. Someone is held accountable for what happened if they were actually accountable for what happened. The people who are responsible for the war and the planning of the war are all dead - the Heirarchs and the High Councillors. What you describe sounds more like a witch hunt than anything else, seeking to point fingers for nothing other than the satisfaction of doing so, and the seeking of a scapegoat. That kind of approach to delivering justice strikes me as being immoral, really.
> I believe that is what ONI is SORTA trying to do
Parangosky made it clear at the start of Glasslands that Kilo-5 was intended to keep the Sangheili infighting until they were ready to finish the job. She isn’t interested in delivering justice to specific individuals, she just wants to drag the human race down to the same level the Covenant were on.
Furthermore, they are doing a -Yoink- job of it too, and their actions are less likely to achieve that end and more likely to wind up with humanity getting put down for good. I’ve seen better black ops work from a toddler after the cookie jar.
> I believe that the likes of Osman/Parangosky realize that the Sangheili will ALWAYS act in their best interest.
Uh-huh. That’s also what Lord Hood realizes. That’s also what Thel realizes. Hood and Thel both know that, and they also both know that Hood will always act in Humanity’s best interests too. Do you know what those two did at that point? The same thing they tried to do with Lydus before 'Gajat gatecrashed the proceedings. To work out a strategy for the future that ensures that significant interests do not conflict, always align and become mutually beneficial, because anyone with half a brain cell can realize that most people will act in their own interests most of the time and that conflicts of interest can and will arise if left unchecked.
Osman and Parangosky are just lazy, overpaid and clearly under-qualified individuals that have a personal vendetta to fulfil. Nothing more.
> It would be infeasable to punish EVERY Sangheili for what they did
It would also be immoral. For someone using morality as the central basis for why Thel should be killed, you were rather negligent in omitting that from the reason why every Sangheili should not be “punished”.
> He has earned no forgiveness
I think that’s up to individuals to decide, really.
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