Talk:Amon/@comment-84.103.224.58-20120525162330/@comment-99.41.40.117-20120525190636

Iroh isn't evil. Zuko wasn't evil. There have been firebender Avatars because fire is part of the cycle. I don't think we're supposed to think fire=evil, nor is it an attempt to portray firebenders in a negative light. It's been clear that there is at least SOME relationship between the element you bend and your own personality. It's probably not that firebenders are evil and there are no evil waterbenders or whatever. Firebenders are probably more suseptible to having an inclination towards evil because of the qualities of fire. Every element is capable of destruction or healing when it isn't being bent. It's just that the other three are primarily helpful and rarely destructive. Fire is primarily destructive and has to be controlled in order to be helpful. It has positive qualities and can be used in a positive way, but if you leave fire on it's own, it's just damaging. Earthbenders share personality traits with earth. Waterbenders share personality traits with water. Air benders share personality traits with air. Firebenders, we can assume, share personality traits with fire. It doesn't mean there is no good in them, just like it doesnt mean that there is no bad in waterbenders. "A firebender killed my..." stories are common, I'd guess, because a firebender is more likely to have to try very hard to learn to discipline themselves and bring out the good in themselves. Whereas a waterbender is more likely to be a nurturing, healing, adaptable person--just like the element they bend.