Talk:Amon/@comment-5191442-20120618031750

In the United States we have made it clear that all men are created equal. Wether you succeed is up to how much you strive. In the world of Avatar, benders are born with an advantage far greater than size, stregnth, wealth or education. Amon wants everyone to start on the same level. We start all on the same level and it works pretty well. He fights for a reasonable cause, Ozi simply wanted world domination, simple, people have a right to local goverment, Ozi is wrong. Amon wants an equal base for socity, he has never said he wants equal results among fellow men (communism). Amon is no communist, I would more consider him a progressive authoritarian, someone who is a monoach but rules for the greater good. An equal starting point in life, to chose your own destiny is a fundamental in the first paragraph of the Decleration of Indpendence. The reason LOK is more mature than its predesor is because the show isnt painted in black and white, Amon has a ligitimate reason for his revolution and defeating him wont solve the bender-non bender conflict. Where Amon goes wrong is how he uses the same tactics of dictators and terrorists: inciting fear, armed protest, and merciless brutality to name a few. He clames that benders have advantages over non-benders, which is true, but look at people such as The Lieutenant or Hiroshi Sato. The Lieutenant can defeat nearly all but a handful of benders and Mr. Sato is one of the richest men in the world. They achieved this through effort and dedication and they succeed. The advance of technology in the world of Avatar is doing the same it did to our world. In the past someone who was physicaly weak or had the inteligence of a vegtable would fail in life and likley die young. Now days someone can become a day laborur or work through the internet making it eaiser to succeed dispite ones weaknesses. In the world of Avatar an average non bender could never achieve things a bender could, but with inventions such as electricity, radios, and automobiles the average persons opportunitys have greatly increased. Amon is a revolutionary and is fighting for a just cause by un-just methods. The issue he fights for, the disparity of an equal foundation, is closing with the progress of technology. He is blinded by his dedication to destroying benders and he does not realize the evil, and misery he is causing. This is why Amon is one of the most believable villans I have ever seen but it is also why he is doomed to fail.