So it's better to not bother?! At least by stilling, you force them to make the effort.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 08/05/2012 06:53:17 AM
Stilling may not be all it's cracked to be. A Darklord in the rescue party can undo the stilling and the shadow doesn't lack in dark Ashaman in the Caemlin neighborhood.
I don't know how to say this any more clearly - I am not proposing severing as an alternative to imprisonment, guards and eventually, execution! I am prosposing it SOLELY as an alternative to SHIELDING. With shielding, you have to work to maintain that status, and with any disruption of your efforts, the prisoner can abruptly revert to his or her default status of "dangerous channeler." By severing them, all efforts (or at least an exponentially greater proportion of them) can be turned to guarding against external threats such as a rescue. Not only that, it forces the other side to make the effort to restore the captives when they are rescued. If the bad guys have a channeler handy who is capable of Healing severing, they still do not have any advantage that makes shielding the superior tactic.
If your point was to argue for execution over stilling, well that goes without saying. I'm more of the "cut them down on sight like rabid dogs" school of thought and much prefer the Children of the Lights' response to discovery of Darkfriends to the Aes Sedai treatment of Ispan. The only drawback with summary execution is the finality and the unlikelihood of reversing a mistaken sentence if the suspect is later discovered to be innocent. Stilling, however, is a perfectly acceptable technique to restrain suspects until their guilt can be absolutely proven at a trial. Thanks to Nynaeve and Flinn, it is now possible to restore the ability to the severed captives, for good if they prove to be innocent and arrested by mistake, and temporarily in the case of the guilty if the more obtuse Aes Sedai insist on going through the formal procedures of an "official" stilling before the execution. What is more, severing will free Black sisters of their Oaths, rendering interogation much more practicable.
The fact that the bad guys could reverse such a condition if they rescued the prisoners does not change one iota the practical advantages of severing over shielding.
Cannoli
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Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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Elayne
02/05/2012 11:36:52 PM
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03/05/2012 02:36:14 PM
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03/05/2012 02:47:58 PM
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Yes, I posted a proposition with that solution years ago.
06/05/2012 07:25:55 PM
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With the new healing technology
07/05/2012 12:08:50 AM
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So it's better to not bother?! At least by stilling, you force them to make the effort.
08/05/2012 06:53:17 AM
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Not to mention that Elayne KNOWS that Stilling them would also have broken their Oaths
08/05/2012 01:11:31 PM
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Not that much
08/05/2012 10:07:24 PM
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Sorry, meant she could have more effectively questioned them in "normal" means
08/05/2012 11:26:13 PM
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Re: Sorry, meant she could have more effectively questioned them in "normal" means
09/05/2012 01:24:41 AM
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Ispan was still bound by her oath to not betray the Black Ajah
09/05/2012 12:32:45 PM
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Re: Ispan was still bound by her oath to not betray the Black Ajah
09/05/2012 03:57:11 PM
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All true. Doesn't change the fact that had they Stilled these women they would have gotten
10/05/2012 01:35:42 PM
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Re: All true. Doesn't change the fact that had they Stilled these women they would have gotten
10/05/2012 08:02:20 PM
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Yes, too bad the viewing was wrong and she died...oh, wait....
06/05/2012 07:34:43 PM
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I agree
07/05/2012 02:25:06 AM
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I don't know that we agree about Elayne...
08/05/2012 06:40:56 AM
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Actually, I think we do on most a lot of points
08/05/2012 08:53:43 PM
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Seriously, I haven't read any Elayne chapters since book 9/Winter's Heart.....
06/05/2012 08:01:05 PM
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