The thing about minority reports is that we don't know which Elementals are making judgments. Gridanians make it sound like all Elementals are in consensus when they aren't. They differ in power, fury, location, element, sound, influence, and pretty much everything other than being intangible aetherial beings. The Hearers can't even hear all of them. Most foreigners aren't going to know that though, which makes it really easy for Gridania as a community to take advantage of them, and cite what basically amounts to their God. The 1.0 Elementals at least had the very real furious Elementals that disintegrate people with Woodsin.

But I digress, basically, even if they could see the future, we don't know which ones can. How far they can see. What parts of the future they see and so on and so forth. If they could see the future of each individual with 100% certainty, then they would know that the WoL was going to help the man anyway. At that point, why forego having the Gridanians aid him? Why not attempt to change the future by having him fall in love with the Twelveswood, such that he leaves the Resistance to stay there.

I think it's simpler. We know from Kan-E-Senna's dialogue that the Elementals don't actually speak. They communicate their feelings about other beings as, "whispers" to those receptive to them. The Hearers in Quarrymill spend the night communing, and they get the feel from The Elementals of, "Bad" or "Anger" or "Grief" etc. Interpret it as condemnation.

Also, there's a daily post limit? :O What's the daily posting limit?