Talk:Amon/@comment-4097725-20120429023750/@comment-69.132.88.84-20120429044608

Wow... that is such a closed minded conclusion. And because I hate closed minded conclusions, I'm going to spell out to you exactly why you are wrong. Bending dosen't kill people. It dosen't start wars. People do, bender or no. If Ozai wasn't a firebender, he still would've tried taking over the world. In fact, if nobody could bend, his military supremacy would have easily succeeded. Benders ensure that every population and every social class has some degree of power to oppose and overcome oppression. Sure, many people use it as a weapon, but without bending, people would have sought out the technology to make guns in order to kill people. Then slaughtering and suppressing people would be even easier, since, in a no bender world, civilians are helpless to defend against bullets.

Not to mention, Amon is also a close minded idiot. He insists that bending causes pain and should thus be stopped, yet he equips his top luietenant with lightning sticks, artificial firebending made and used only to hurt people. Amon is also an idiot in that he says nonbenders are lower class citizens. Last I checked, benders aren't part of any caste system (the avatar being the one exception considering the spritual reincarnation thing is actually true). Nonbenders already have equality. Sure, they can't fly or generate lightning for the power plant, but everybody in Republic City has the social and political freedom to be successful and powerful in any way they can physically do so, despite any shortcomings. Hiroshi Sato is living proof of that. Amon takes the wrong approach. To ensure that "all men are created equal", he shouldn't be spreading disadvantages. He should be forwarding the technology and opportunities for all that would make nonbending even more irrelevant towards success than it already is.

Now to counteract some of your assumptions. Just because the plot follows benders as the heroes and villains dosen't mean bending makes them better or more evil. They writers just know they're more exciting to watch. And just because more benders are shown as bad guys doesn't mean they're the majority, it's a better plotline when the bad guys appear to outnumber good guys. The writers also don't want to expand the number of bender protagonists, because then it would thin out the storytline, but more villains, and with bending power to boot, makes the story exciting. And why on earth are you insisting that nonbenders suffer more from combat? Benders would be in higher demand in drafts and are bigger targets for opposing forces. Remember how the southern raiders ONLY targeted waterbenders? And where are you getting this stuff about nonbenders always being put on the front lines? I'm pretty sure the benders would be the ones forced into the heat of the battles.