Talk:Bumi vs. Toph, Round One/@comment-204.154.123.79-20130114172652/@comment-3338975-20130227012716

While I'll apologize for going on what I now know to be an unrelated rant, I'm afraid I cannot "admit" that Bumi can "in fact" bend with his eyebrows, because the only source supporting this as a canonical power of his has shown itself to be uncredible in other areas, as pointed out above. It's mere speculation, however probable it may seem to you and others, as one could always make the counterpoint against it that earthbending with one's face requires less fine muscle control than does earthbending with one's eyebrows, and therefore the case made for the latter from the former does not necessarily hold. Thus, neither position is instrinsically more probable than the other, and thus invoking Bumi's "eyebrow-bending" in this context will just lead to pointless & irresolvable debates unrelated to anything we can pin down about the characters. A Toph-fanatic would be theoretically just as justifed in claiming that Toph can "in fact" earthbend with her eyebrows, based on the "chin-bending" incident mentioned above (a position I qualified below, against the apparent default position that "size matters most"). However, I neither desire to win points in the argument in such an illegitimate manner, nor to ignite an argument which you obviously do not desire to take part in, so I will merely leave it as a counterexample of the fallacy engaged in treating speculation as fact and as a warning to whoever may try to debate in such a manner in the future. I am sorry, however, for confusing you with the first anon, and for spewing out a long argument against his/her claims when they in fact were of no interest to you whatsoever.