Carrying out a punishment because its convienent doesn't make it right. It boils down to a case of becoming no better then your enemies. Aridhol learned that lesson the hard way.
Hardly. Aridhol was Aridhol not because it did horrible things to fight the Shadow, but because it crossed the line and turned against the Light too, then it turned against itself. The taint of SL emerged only from Aridhol's self destruction.
It's way too late for a pre-TG neo Aridhol. What's the issue now is more the Ligth taking means it would rather not because it has to to defeat the Shadow.
The closest it came to an embryo of Aridhol in the series is with Masema. With a few decades, and left alone to his devices, he could have self-destroyed and eventually created an Aridhol. Maybe (not that he would have been left alone long enough to achieve this).
Just look at the Seanchan. They are ruthless, use torture and slavery, still fight the rest of the Light etc. - and the WC were not so different too - and yet, the worst about them in the greater picture is not an Aridhol, is that they made themselves all too easy for the Shadow to turn against the rest of the Light's forces.
A potential new Aridhol is strictly a post-TG issue now. A fairly distant one unless Fain/Mordeth survives.
This message last edited by DomA on 05/10/2009 at 06:07:57 AM
Still the Darkfriends.
03/10/2009 05:25:29 PM
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Makes sense, but...
03/10/2009 07:04:27 PM
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Nynaeve does. Egwene did it solo in tDR. Rand did 3 at once in LoC, but men don't seem to know how
03/10/2009 07:16:03 PM
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Re: Nynaeve does. Egwene did it solo in tDR. Rand did 3 at once in LoC, but men don't seem to know h
04/10/2009 12:55:55 AM
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Is this the real stilling?
04/10/2009 09:06:32 AM
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It's real stilling
04/10/2009 02:55:35 PM
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Re: It's real stilling
04/10/2009 06:46:58 PM
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Re: It's real stilling
04/10/2009 06:53:52 PM
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I think Egwene took longer because it was the first time. *NM*
04/10/2009 07:20:26 PM
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Not in my opinion
05/10/2009 05:00:30 AM
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How does that respond to what I said?
05/10/2009 05:15:57 AM
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Re: How does that respond to what I said?
05/10/2009 09:07:16 PM
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I disagree.
04/10/2009 10:03:56 PM
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Re: I disagree.
05/10/2009 04:58:04 AM
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Then...
05/10/2009 05:12:45 AM
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Re: Then...
05/10/2009 09:09:04 PM
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I'd like you to clear this up...
06/10/2009 02:18:01 AM
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Re: I'd like you to clear this up...
06/10/2009 07:50:33 AM
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Re: I'd like you to clear this up...
07/10/2009 02:28:34 AM
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Sounds good, but the Aes Sedai aren't known for making the most logical decisions. Nice Post *NM*
03/10/2009 07:47:36 PM
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oops i meant to put "aren't" but i accidently put are. It's edited now. Sorry for any confusion *NM*
03/10/2009 10:26:50 PM
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Re: Still the Darkfriends.
04/10/2009 04:51:58 AM
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Re: Still the Darkfriends.
04/10/2009 02:06:51 PM
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Re: Still the Darkfriends.
04/10/2009 05:45:16 PM
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Remember Shadar Logoth
04/10/2009 02:49:06 PM
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The only thing worse than ignoring morality for pragmatism is moralizing a non-moral issue
04/10/2009 09:36:43 PM
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Re: Remember Shadar Logoth
05/10/2009 06:05:54 AM
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