Actually it makes a huge difference when using balefire. You balefire one person and the odds of destroying the Pattern are quite small. But as you increase the number of people balefired you increase the risk of destroying the Pattern. If Rand had simply killed Graendal and all those inside the Palace I would agree that what he did wasn't evil. However, using balefire and risking the Pattern as he did is certainly close to being evil, even if it was unintentional.
I've always found this assumption to be rather dramatic. There were hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Aes Sedai who used balefire constantly for over a year in the War of Power before they stopped and they still couldn't unravel the Pattern. Rand would be hard pressed to match such an effort. Balefiring a single palace full of people is like child's play in comparison.
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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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Re: I disagree with prety much everything
- 14/11/2009 04:35:27 PM
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Re: I disagree with prety much everything
- 15/11/2009 07:04:16 AM
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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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