Talk:Amon/@comment-75.72.206.224-20120729000009

...I don't understand how people are saying that it appears that nonbenders face next to no discrimination and the equalists aren't justified in their cause.

-Triple threats assaulting that old man in episode one, using their bending to disempower a nonbender

-Whether it be for equalist training or not, the police force invading a practice session for chi blocking, I'm pretty confident that at least some people had to have died, being frozen whole by waterbending, and being denied the chance to learn how to protect themselves.

-Lack of representation of nonbenders on the council

-The prescence of nonbenders in the poorer part of town, not talking about the slums with that one hobo, but when the electricity was turned off and all of the nonbenders were put in prison just because they were nonbenders.

-Less job opportunity, probending, the metalbending police force, most likely some positions in the army, and certain types of factory work, i imagine.

-And just the fact that the crowd at the revelation was so gigantic, people just don't join groups like the equalists for petty reasoning, It's where things have gotten so low for them that their last resort for change is a group like the equalists.

I wanted desperately for Amon's story to be true, or at least him to refuse to use his bending because he thought all that bending brought was inequality. That in a more modern society with drastically less spirituality, that bending has a higher correlation with crime and suffering. I wanted Korra to have to face a moral dilemma instead of just thinking she can handle the sociopolitical problems of Rebuplic City with her fists.