But do they need that insurance?
If people make choices that lead to their destruction, isn't that in the end their right?
If outside of the wars people were simply left to live in peace and with their own decisions, that would be fine, but it seems that the people born were chosen to be born, and the fact that Siuan knew she could detect Ta'veren suggests they are quite common, forcing people to make decisions they wouldn't have otherwise made, with the occasional big ones like Artur Hawkwing to make big changes, such as sending forces over the seas.
The farmer whose just had his first grand-kid doesn't care much if the Wheel made his son meet his future wife just so their great great grand-kid can save a girl from a fire, so that she can go on the cure a disease, so that.....
Just because "everything happens for a reason", doesn't mean the Wheel is micromanaging everything that happens in everyones life.
And besides, then you get into the mindscrew that is "everyone one is a part of the Pattern", meaning that all that "the Pattern is trying to make me do something" stuff? They're... Kind of doing it to themselves.
Which, seems to me anyway, be what Min was thinking when she thought that what Rand was doing when he was apologizing to that city, wasn't really mind control, they where all just... Forgiving him on their own... All of them... All at once...
It's a thin line, but a really important one.
