[SPOILERS] Minfillia' Fate in 3.2

[Fenral]

Just because people have chosen to fight and die as soldiers, doesn't mean there isn't merit in trying to stop the war itself. I think where this particular moment is in the bigger picture is getting lost in the need to continue to justify the course we have been on as correct and not in need of questioning or deviation. Y'shtola dismissed it entirely, and Thancred has pretty much snapped. These people have worked together for years; there's no way something like this can happen without taking a toll.

We can't keep fighting blindly, and no matter what we may or may not learn by searching for real answers, we have to learn all we can. There are always other ways, and trying too hard to frame our struggle as some great war may be a much older problem than we think, and could even be at the root of the calamities themselves.

And technically, people given the Echo don't choose it, they're "chosen." She didn't sign up for that, nor did she sign up for the extra fine print that keeps getting tacked onto the contract. Maybe Hydaelyn really is some great objective good, and maybe she hasn't done anything terrible to Minfilia at all, but there's no way in hell I'm going to take that on faith after everything that has happened.