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A wonderful commentary on 'nation building' too, I suppose Isaac Send a noteboard - 14/11/2009 08:22:46 AM
I don't really approve of using 'for their own good' to justify conquest, at the same time, I note that very few people tore down their aqueducts or ripped up their roads when Rome's fist vanished.

In this particular context, I don't see Rand's actions in Arad Doman, or his previous essentially identical but more successful action in Carheinen as unjustified or immoral in any particular way. Nor his subsequent retreat as immoral, just tragic. But the specific morality of his actions, or British Imperialism, is another matter, it isn't 'evil' by any moral compass I can think of. As to the other points, nuking Graendal seems entirely rational and ethical.

I don't think we can call the borderlanders invaders, they were permitted by the soveriegn of Andor to cross Andor, and I don't recall hearing that Far MAdding had either objected to their presence or was Rand's territory. Though their behavior is hostile, moving troops through neutral countries with their permission is not by itself cassus belli, especially when the nominal invaders are waving a parley flag.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

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Rand is NOT evil in tGS, nor does he do any evil - 14/11/2009 12:26:27 AM 1347 Views
That is nonsense... - 14/11/2009 12:47:22 AM 737 Views
Re: That is nonsense... - 14/11/2009 05:30:01 AM 620 Views
So what? - 14/11/2009 09:28:49 AM 684 Views
Re: So what? - 15/11/2009 12:17:54 AM 619 Views
Laughable - 15/11/2009 03:36:36 PM 570 Views
Chasing you with an army is not hostile? - 19/11/2009 12:59:52 AM 486 Views
Sorry... gotta disagree. - 14/11/2009 01:09:30 AM 659 Views
Re: Sorry... gotta disagree. - 14/11/2009 03:49:49 AM 610 Views
Even if it's not thousands of lives. Stalin got it right. - 14/11/2009 05:33:05 AM 481 Views
I think the thousands would disagree - as would the one. *NM* - 25/11/2009 08:19:47 AM 230 Views
Mad, threatening, bad-tempered and cold, but not evil... - 14/11/2009 01:43:12 AM 589 Views
I disagree with prety much everything - 14/11/2009 03:10:12 AM 588 Views
Re: I disagree with prety much everything - 14/11/2009 05:45:14 AM 656 Views
Why in the world is quantity irrelevant? - 14/11/2009 06:01:13 AM 443 Views
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 524 Views
Ok, let's take this a step further - 14/11/2009 09:45:50 PM 477 Views
Re: Ok, let's take this a step further - 15/11/2009 12:23:05 AM 579 Views
Tried AGAIN? Serial killing indicates a tendancy. - 25/11/2009 08:23:39 AM 478 Views
Re: I disagree with prety much everything - 14/11/2009 04:35:27 PM 630 Views
I think you're confusing "evil" with "risky" - 15/11/2009 12:48:21 AM 621 Views
Re: I disagree with prety much everything - 15/11/2009 07:04:16 AM 520 Views
What Rand did that was evil. - 14/11/2009 04:06:17 AM 572 Views
I don't see Arad Doman - 14/11/2009 04:57:20 AM 477 Views
Take up the Dragon's burden... - 14/11/2009 07:56:46 AM 679 Views
A wonderful commentary on 'nation building' too, I suppose - 14/11/2009 08:22:46 AM 671 Views
Priorities. - 14/11/2009 07:52:06 AM 644 Views
Perhaps - 14/11/2009 09:43:51 PM 670 Views
Re: Perhaps - 24/11/2009 08:28:56 PM 590 Views
I don't think he was evil - 14/11/2009 08:10:56 AM 611 Views

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