For a Spartan it's sometimes a necessary trait. Without it, sometimes even the will to fight would have been lost. Of all the people he admired, Lord Hood, and even Halsey, had gone through it.

"The Covenant was defeated before Econtra."

It's leadership shattered, and a truce declared as all races fight over crumbs in a civil war that has no end in sight. And that's without mentioning the rings, and the Flood. The end of a war of over a hundred thousand years.

"I know the UNSC could face them again. But they made it count."

And yet, to this day, he knows the line between 'spent lives' and 'wasted lives' is more blurry than his trainer claimed it would ever be.

Between Samuel, dozens of his Spartans, and the hundreds of worlds burned.