Talk:Earth/@comment-112.198.77.88-20120611162339/@comment-81.153.196.19-20121112064334

No, not actually weird at all. The people of the World of Avatar are not human beings, they are Humanoid in form, but essentially they are Avatarians if you will. This means that they way in which they view things is far different. We would have never developed guns had it not been fot European Colonialism and the many Revolutions that influenced the globe at the time due to Human beings natural desire for control over other things and to ultimately submit to violence.

The Fire Nation never created Guns during the Hundred Year War due to them plaing a high value on Bending and being Discrimitive against Non-Benders. The Earth Kingdom also did not create Guns due to the strit value they put on tradition and somthing as radical as a gun would be the equivilant of an Atom Bomb dropping ontop of everything they held dear Tradition Wise. The water Tribe never created them as they never had the materials to do so and relied on Water instead for construction purposes. The Air Nomads never created them as they are all dead and they were against violence.