Does it bother anyone else the way Aes Sedai treat former Aes Sedai who have been stilled? To me it would be the same as active military treating wounded warriors as inferior because they can no longer function the same as they once had.
I see your point but again, shouldn't they help that person? Help them through the withdraws versus sending them out on their own do deal with it?Take a look at it from the other perspective. An Aes Sedai will never feel anything that can compare to embracing the source. I would almost equate it to drugs. In many spots in the series it is conveyed that it is intoxicating and that it should be feared. When an Aes Sedai is stilled, she can no longer touch the source. Having this ripped away from you would probably be like quitting an addictive drug. They are not being weened off the power. They are having it completely stripped away in an instant. This will have devastating consequences to a persons emotional stability and even their physical body. In many cases I would assume that the Aes Sedai going through this eventually no longer resembles the person they once were. Furthermore, the person going through this will try to replace the loss with anything they can just to feel complete. So to answer your question, I will ask another. How would you react to a drug addict that is no longer the person you once knew very well. They are destroying themselves in search of a replacement drug because their body is in a constant state of withdrawal. You know that nothing you can do will improve them or their situation as the drug they need no longer exists.
An Aes Sedai can look at a stilled woman and understand that this would be themselves in similar circumstances. Another aspect to this is that Aes Sedai live so long. Watching a friend of a few hundred years suffer for several years and die in this way would likely be unbearable.
If someone was paralyzed and lost their ability to walk, should their peers turn their backs upon that person and treat them differently?
I see your point but again, shouldn't they help that person? Help them through the withdraws versus sending them out on their own do deal with it?
If someone was paralyzed and lost their ability to walk, should their peers turn their backs upon that person and treat them differently?