Isn't that exactly Egwene's point? Even with three Seals active, the world is reeling. Remove them as well without a plan to immediately defeat the Drak One and you give the Dark One even more access to the world.


That's retarded. At this very moment, there are three Seals, and the world is far more united than in a long time, there is no Black Sister manipulating events in Tar Valon, Camlyn has a queen who can command larger armies against the Shadow than ever before...

Sure this won't last forever. So yes, some plan has to be made to defeat the Dark One. But Rand doesn't know what. He still doesn't know the deal with Callandor. All he knows is that the last time he tried, he missed "something". He doesn't know what that something is. Yet, he went and told the Tower he plans to break the Seals. When Egwene asked him to stay and talk about his plans, he refused. So why shouldn't she be worried that he was doing something stupid? He doesn't even have a real plan which would make her think breaking the Seals is reasonable. All he has guiding him is the same "instinct" that caused the Breaking. And while male channelers going mad was an acceptable price in the AoL, when people had so much more capability to handle this kind of disaster, something of a similar magnitude would probably mean the end of the world now.


Someone whose existence is being threatened if he's wrong, and has the ability to view possible futures, one of which tells her his path could spell disaster. Even if you think that isn't what her Dream means, she certainly does, and that is the prime motivator for her opposition.


The exact same thing could be said of Rand till he had his unlooked for epiphany which granted him Lews Therin's memory. Nothing in the prophesies predicted that either. We don't even know what Egwene's role is, or what critical knowledge or ability of hers may be critical (or not). This is a little too early to start questioning why the hell a main character in the series is being allowed to be assertive.