That's only the government of humanity... the rest of the colonies and people in it, are not so dysfunctional... It's only the people running the show who are so god damn crazy, and who have problems...
After all, what sane person would conscript children to become super-soldiers?
Honestly? It may not be nice, to put it mildly, but it is sane.
You have a small cadre of janissaries, potent to the point they can make any single threat crumple before it can gain momentum but also with a degree's separation from the politics of the realm. We are ill-suited to lead, are biologically dependent on our masters for both life and propagation, and we have no ties except to our brother and creed. Since we rarely will reproduce it even has touches of the old chinese system of eunuchs. Its not a bad idea.
And a lot of the spark that Spartan II soldiers have that later iterations, or Orions, don't is directly tied to this being their childhood. For them, being a supersoldier is what they do but it isn't the whole of them. For us, for us excellence and brotherhood is something we hunger for as if they are biological necessities. Oh, the way they went about it was ham-fisted, sure. But sometimes ugly things work.
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Light has issues. You may not see them due to Light being... Light, but they are there.
I figure his list of issues would be longer than the list of degrees, or their equivalencies, to be honest.
Well, we have plenty of time before Halsey descides to augment us. So.... we'll be okay.
Barring low level chemical augmentation, anyway. The food is already tampered with.
I doubt that would cause rejection issues so, yeah, we have time.