Talk:Amon/@comment-76.180.162.169-20120429041230/@comment-165.134.208.176-20120429165732

It's no black-and-white situation, bending's done a lot of good for their world (and pretty much fueled their Industrial Revolution), bending's also done a lot of bad...

Since it's a power only a minority possess, the anti-bender sentiment is a natural reaction. Just like the real world's communism/socialism is a response to the unequal distribution of money. There are of course, a range of forms of it, from the democratic socialist who just wants a safety net and progressive tax system, to the Leninist revolutionaries whose first step is "line up the tsar and all the rich people against the wall and shoot them."

Amon's ideals have a foundation, but I suspect seeing as he's in a villain role, he'll be acting on them in more of that second way...which would be bad.