Let's look at what he did, he brought them a bunch of food, not his fault it was destroyed, he killed Graendal, he made a very good attempt to bring order and peace, inside and with the Seanchan, and in the end he left them with their only military force far away, easy pickings for the Seanchan, who tend to bring order and food too. It was obviously a failed attempt, but he made the attempt, so how is he any more evil than, say, Egwene, who did not send food or troops, or Elayne, who has food and gateways too, or the borderlanders, who had the troops to bring order way back but instead elected to march those troops even further from their duties. He couldn't do anything else, it's like bringing a peacekeeping force to some place that's ravaged by diseas and war, bringing vaccine, then finding out the vaccine was ruined and you hvae no replacements, you pack up your troops before they get infected too and go home, sucks, but not evil.
...the savage wars of peace.
Fill full the mouth of famine
Go bid the sickness cease.
And when your goal is nearest,
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth & heathen folly
Bring all your hopes to naught.
Take up the Dragon's burden
And reap his old reward
The blame of those you better,
The hate of those you guard.
The cry of hosts you humor
Ah, slowly toward the Light,
"Why brought ye us from bondage?
Our 'loved Egyptian night!"
- Paraphrased from Rudyard Kipling (substituted "Dragon" for "white man" )
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
"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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Take up the Dragon's burden...
14/11/2009 07:56:46 AM
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