What Rand did that was evil was that he abandoned Arad Doman. Other then that he did nothing evil exactly but came very close.
He did what he could. He had other priorities, and the Domani were not shaping up. At some point, people have to step up and handle things themselves. Sure their country was screwed up, but he tried his best, got next to no cooperation, and how much food is he supposed to donate anyway? He brought them a ton and gave it to them for free! Is he supposed to reduce Tear & Illian to the level of Arad Domon to feed the Domani? At some point practicality has to rear its head too. He has a war to fight. He can't keep taking food out of the mouths of those who are serving him usefully to give to those who are no use. Rand's destruction of Graendal's lair, while evil in peacetime, is necessary in war. It is no worse then the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not to mention the firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden, which were in some ways worse then the A-Bomb. (One could argue that they prolonged the war instead of ending it.) The death of Greandal could very easily end the war and famine in Arad Doman.
Actually, I hold that NONE of those bombings were necessary. They were random acts of destruction, with no real military purpose behind them. Rand used precision and verified his target's presence before shooting. Long before Dresden the Allies knew how inaccurate their bombing really was. As one export put it, they were not actually fighting, they were simply exporting explosives, without a care where they landed. And there were simply no targets of a level of Graendal to justify the kind of collateral destruction done in the bombings.
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
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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Priorities.
14/11/2009 07:52:06 AM
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