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Rand believes that the DO *is* Evil. I don't know how may different ways I have to say this in this thread, but I'll try it again. The Dark One *is* Evil. He is not evil. He is Evil. Capital Letter Evil. Evil the noun, not evil the adjective. Evil is the Dark One. The Dark One is Evil. Finkel...

Option 1 is does not reflect Rand's thinking. Rand does not believe the DO is the source of Evil. Option 2 does not logically follow its own premise, because Rand does not believe the DO is the source of Evil.

Only relevant if A is not B. Rand explicitly realizes that A == B. A is not equivalent to B, A is *defined as B*. Destroying A destroys B.

Citation needed. Rand believes (in fact, discovers) that the DO is the *intellect* manifested by the Primordial Force that is Evil. He's not the source of evil, he is Evil. There is no source of Evil except the Creator who created it as a choice.

No he definitely granted it to Rand. Using the True Power has bad effects on the mind of those who wield it.

Rand is inside the Pattern when he holds the Dark One. I believe it.

Someone's been reading their Silmarillion. Tolkien used this exact metaphor.

The DO doesn't give a choice; the DO *is* the choice. The DO gives a choice in the sense that Pepsi provides an alternative to Coke.

So here's another way to approach the question, which we'll restate as: "Did the DO trick Rand?" Rand decides not to destroy the DO because he believes doing so will remove the ability of humans to make their own decisions between good and evil. He's either right, or he's wrong. For Rand to be...

I was clarifying for Emerylde. It helps sometimes to place A and B side by side to make clear the difference between them.

That's not the kind of choice we're talking about. Let's use Moghedien as an example. Before the Bore opened, Moghedien chose to do bad things. Bad Moggy. Bad! After the Bore opened, Moghedien continued to to bad things. Bad! She was able to wield the DO's direct touch (the True Power) and...

If the DO is destroyed, no human mind will perceive theft as an option they could choose to take.

No. Sealing away the DO removes his *physical effect on the pattern*. It does not remove the capacity for humans to choose to do bad things. *Destroying the DO* does remove the capacity for humans to choose bad things because there is no bad choice available to them to make.

It was explicitly confirmed to me by Team Jordan that the forthcoming Encyclopedia will the first time we receive objectively true information that contradicts information held to be The Truth by Randlanders as of the end of Towers of Midnight.