He showed that he is willing to use balefire on a large scale to destroy a whole palace with a Forsaken in it, even if he kills innocent people alongside the Forsaken (and even if all those people were "drones", they are still innocent and not the real targets). 
As it's shown later in TGS, Rand starts then to see balefire as a common weapon. He already contemplates to balefire Tam and all the Seanchan. The next possible step would be that Rand considers to balefire whole cities, which don't bow to him or if he just believes that a Forsaken is inside the city. Ultimately such an attitude threatens humankind and the Pattern. Therefore balefire is forbidden and to use it widespread as Rand did an atrocity. Even the Forsaken don't want to use balefire this way anymore.
Besides that, Min and Nynaeve apparently - wrongly - believe that someone who was balefired can never be reborn, which would make its use even more horrific.
	As it's shown later in TGS, Rand starts then to see balefire as a common weapon. He already contemplates to balefire Tam and all the Seanchan. The next possible step would be that Rand considers to balefire whole cities, which don't bow to him or if he just believes that a Forsaken is inside the city. Ultimately such an attitude threatens humankind and the Pattern. Therefore balefire is forbidden and to use it widespread as Rand did an atrocity. Even the Forsaken don't want to use balefire this way anymore.
Besides that, Min and Nynaeve apparently - wrongly - believe that someone who was balefired can never be reborn, which would make its use even more horrific.
			Rand the psycho?
	    
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			I cannot follow your assumptions.
	    
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			Wait!
	    
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			I doubt he meant 'in one go' as a single stream of balefire.
	    
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			Of course, I agree with you, esp since I just put forth the idea you support earlier in the thread.
	    
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			Rand crossed a line
		
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			Doesn't Balefire remove your thread from the Pattern permanently?
	    
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			No, RJ stated balefired people can be reborn. *NM*
	    
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			But not in this turning of the Wheel.  So they'd miss out on MANY lifetimes.
	    
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			No, balefire just kills you backwards in time. It is not super-death. *NM*
	    
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			LOL ... super-death!
	    
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			Yes it was.
	    
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			Re: Yes it was.
	    
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			Re: Yes it was.
	    
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			let me ask the question in a different way
	    
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			actually that quote supports my thoughts
	    
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			yet it could take him some undetermined amount of time to figure out your dead?
	    
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			Re: yet it could take him some undetermined amount of time to figure out your dead?
	    
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			Meh. I just think advocating mass-murder is the opposite direction RJ meant for this to take.
	    
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			Sigh. What mass murder?
	    
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			In this book Rand was a wimp and a bully.
	    
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			Personally I'm kind of sick of Rand being the only person killing FS!
	    
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			OK I'm sorry but this gets a huge ROFL :lol:
	    
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			Yes. Anakin Skywalker all over again
	    
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			Meh
	    
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			The worst part about his atrocities is his rationalizing them!
	    
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			I do have to guiltily say, though, that if Rand had balefired the Seanchan and THEN became good...
	    
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			I don't think Rand or LTT (who has/have) little capacity for Healing
	    
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			right cause all Generals are so well versed in medical conditions  - 07/01/2010 09:44:09 PM
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			Nice way to avoid the argument.
	    
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			I'm just done talking in circles.  You seem to think that because people
	    
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			I concede
	    
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			You weren't wrong overall, but there were some serious flaws in your reasoning.
	    
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			Morals are subjective anyhow,
	    
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			I have religious beliefs and that is an absurd contention
	    
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			You are treating Graendal's "pets" as though they were enemy combatants
	    
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			Like I give a damn what a group of professional killers would do.
	    
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			Graendal captured these people as part of the Shadows offensive,  Operation Chaos Rules
	    
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			Well, I still liked your first argument. It's a freaking war. The argument ...
	    
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