Rand has not yet crossed the moral event horizon of no return,
redhand Send a noteboard - 14/11/2009 03:27:22 AM
but if he actually destroied the borderland army or seanchan civilians in cold blood, he would have. Then he would not be redeemable in the end.
The purpose of war is to render your enemy incapable to fight any more, not genecide. In a battle, you don't slaughter your oppoents to the last man, the obvious exception being Mat's battle in KOD. There are quarters, and the oppoent may break and scatter. But when Rand use the CK, that is like a WMD. How do the borderland soldiers surrender when they give up? If they decide not to follow their King any more and want to follow Rand, how do they do that? That is like killing POW.
I remember in tDR, the Tairen ship captain is telling the plan of High Lord Samon, and he dreams of salting the fields of Illian, and put all of the people of illian in chains.
What Rand tried to do is close to Forsaken range, if he actually went ahead and did it.
The purpose of war is to render your enemy incapable to fight any more, not genecide. In a battle, you don't slaughter your oppoents to the last man, the obvious exception being Mat's battle in KOD. There are quarters, and the oppoent may break and scatter. But when Rand use the CK, that is like a WMD. How do the borderland soldiers surrender when they give up? If they decide not to follow their King any more and want to follow Rand, how do they do that? That is like killing POW.
I remember in tDR, the Tairen ship captain is telling the plan of High Lord Samon, and he dreams of salting the fields of Illian, and put all of the people of illian in chains.
What Rand tried to do is close to Forsaken range, if he actually went ahead and did it.
Rand is NOT evil in tGS, nor does he do any evil
- 14/11/2009 12:26:27 AM
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That is nonsense...
- 14/11/2009 12:47:22 AM
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Re: That is nonsense...
- 14/11/2009 05:30:01 AM
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So what?
- 14/11/2009 09:28:49 AM
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Sorry... gotta disagree.
- 14/11/2009 01:09:30 AM
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Re: Sorry... gotta disagree.
- 14/11/2009 03:49:49 AM
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I disagree with prety much everything
- 14/11/2009 03:10:12 AM
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Wouldn't the Chaos Graendal was causing in Arad Doman be greater than the chaos Rand caused?
- 14/11/2009 04:11:48 AM
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nothing Graendal did almost caused the Pattern to collapse *NM*
- 14/11/2009 05:59:21 AM
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The chaos the Forsaken are causing is causing the world to collapse and the DO to get stronger
- 14/11/2009 07:48:05 AM
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Re: I disagree with prety much everything
- 14/11/2009 05:45:14 AM
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Why in the world is quantity irrelevant?
- 14/11/2009 06:01:13 AM
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A murderer is evil. What difference does it make how many? That's just degrees. There's no OK number
- 14/11/2009 07:22:47 AM
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Ok, let's take this a step further
- 14/11/2009 09:45:50 PM
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Rand has not yet crossed the moral event horizon of no return,
- 14/11/2009 03:27:22 AM
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Then he already passed the horizon by your reckoning. He DID choose to do those things.
- 14/11/2009 07:45:46 AM
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Then maybe we just have different standards.
- 14/11/2009 11:56:02 AM
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Why do you keep bringing up genocide? Rand was not doing that.
- 15/11/2009 01:02:23 AM
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To me, the Rules of War is nothing but a contract between parties.
- 15/11/2009 08:39:55 PM
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It's too late in the game to worry about followers. He has no further political agenda *NM*
- 19/11/2009 01:01:04 AM
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What Rand did that was evil.
- 14/11/2009 04:06:17 AM
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I don't see Arad Doman
- 14/11/2009 04:57:20 AM
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