I don't think you're SUPPOSED to reconcile such atrocities.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 28/09/2009 09:48:15 PM
Duh! Is this the most obvious post ever? Well not really..
While doing research on Demandred, I was reminded that he fed two whole cities to Trollocs during the War of Power. He did this because they offended him before he turned to the Shadow. This included every man, woman and child.
How can one reconcile such an atrocity? Certainly there are very few people in our history who can claim to have mass murdered so many people, for such a small crime, over such a quick period. Most of the Forsaken can boast similar atrocities - and they are responsible for countless deaths 3,000 years ago.
Do you think therefore that there is justice in this series? Is it enough to balefire Demandred for this? It sometimes seems that the Forsaken are so evil that nothing can be bad enough to make them pay for what they did in the AOL. At the same time, we see them only as evil generals and we're rarely reminded of their mass murders... we only see isolated murders from them, and their evil is 'diluted'.
Is it all unfair? Are they getting what they deserve? What more could be done? Is it lame thinking about people who died 3,000 years ago?
This is sort of the point - they are beyond all concerns of justice and right and are irredeemable. Thay are to be killed or eliminated like a gangrenous limb to prevent their doing further harm. There is no healing or restoring them. They are the walking condemned, the living damned, and deserve nothing more than being put down like mad dogs. As RJ characterized them "...a people who deserved no better (than die and be lost to memory)."
While doing research on Demandred, I was reminded that he fed two whole cities to Trollocs during the War of Power. He did this because they offended him before he turned to the Shadow. This included every man, woman and child.
How can one reconcile such an atrocity? Certainly there are very few people in our history who can claim to have mass murdered so many people, for such a small crime, over such a quick period. Most of the Forsaken can boast similar atrocities - and they are responsible for countless deaths 3,000 years ago.
Do you think therefore that there is justice in this series? Is it enough to balefire Demandred for this? It sometimes seems that the Forsaken are so evil that nothing can be bad enough to make them pay for what they did in the AOL. At the same time, we see them only as evil generals and we're rarely reminded of their mass murders... we only see isolated murders from them, and their evil is 'diluted'.
Is it all unfair? Are they getting what they deserve? What more could be done? Is it lame thinking about people who died 3,000 years ago?
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
The Forsaken are so evil
- 28/09/2009 09:24:27 PM
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I don't think you're SUPPOSED to reconcile such atrocities.
- 28/09/2009 09:48:15 PM
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I don't think you're SUPPOSED to reconcile such atrocities.
- 28/09/2009 09:48:15 PM
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It is not about justice, it is about duty....
- 28/09/2009 11:19:05 PM
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Re: It is not about justice, it is about duty....
- 29/09/2009 12:00:04 AM
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Yeah. 
*NM*
- 29/09/2009 12:05:09 AM
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*NM*
- 29/09/2009 12:05:09 AM
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Excellent - his books seem to get better with each new one he releases. *NM*
- 29/09/2009 12:56:53 AM
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