Why all the legion hate? I hate slavers. I hate rapists (I suspect that will be censored, so in PC terms, those who initiate non-consensual intercourse.) Think they should all be raked over hot coals until there is nothing identifiable left of them, and then those twisted remains should be shot into a black hole for final annihilation.
So I hate the Legion. I'll pile their corpses to the sky, scorched and seared by energy weapons fire, shattered and torn by This Machine, and cauterized and perforated by thermic lances. They deserve neither respect nor mercy. Only pain, terror, and death will I hand to them.
So, you like the NCR but avoid the way they treat people under their "protection"?
In the game the NCR can not even protect the roads, they lack the man power to do anything other then hold what they have.
The NCR troops where openly (in primm) consorting with powder gangers and raiders, corruption runs deep as well as seen by several quests.
They take the land the land/cattle barons want and tax any well to do town for the "protection".
If you do all the NCR quests and listen closely to what the people say and the quests have you doing you will see the NCR is just as bad as the Legion, they are just less up front about it.
The NCR has slavery, and you think the boots on the ground don't (or would not) take the same "spoils of war" as the Legion?
Both sides are equally bad and good, its just the NCR covers up the bad while the legion is just straight up about it, like them or not they don't lie about what they are and what they do.
Just in my personal opinion, if you take the PC out of the game, the NCR would have lost the area anyway.
The legion is not as bad as it seems, but they are not portrayed as fully as I like.
But, I doubt we will agree on this, so lets just agree to not agree?