Talk:Anti-bending Revolution/@comment-4662143-20120422215817/@comment-187.115.160.206-20120509155012

Basically, benders are born, not made. Sure, bending skill depends on your pratice, but someone who is not a born bender will never be able to bend, no matter how hard he tries.

With that advantage, benders can more easily extort and intimidate non benders into giving them money, can more easily rob them, and all sorts of criminal acts. A non bender is an easy target to a bender.

And the law enforcement and rulling classes seems to be made almost exclusively from benders, and for some reason (small numbers, corruption, ineficiency, etc) that law enforcement is ineffective. Which leads to non benders thinking the benders are protected from the law simply because they are benders.

You are right, there are all sorts of gizmos and gadgets around. But the society and technology still seems to rely heavily on bending. And so far in the series, important government jobs seems to be (nearly) exclusive to benders. Which leads to poorer non benders, and less oportunity.

Add on top of that the social prestige. So far, all statues on Republic City are of benders. The favorite sport is pro-bending, which requires bending (duh). The rulling class seems to be made exclusively from benders.

Imagine a society where government, sport, fame,national heroes, higher jobs and law enforcement were all at the hands of one minority. You couldn't join this minority by any means : it was by birth, and by birth only. Plus, the criminals, from highest to lowest, were part of this minority and were not being punished at all. Not only that, but on an individual level, if you angered a member of this minority, he could easily hurt you bad.

This all breeds hatred from those born without the ability to bend. So the idea of an equal world, where your financial and social status were defined by your skill alone, and where those who oppress you would be punished and cease to exist, is a dream come true for most non-benders.