Talk:Air Acolytes/@comment-72.22.124.129-20120411031221/@comment-68.186.205.231-20120421182605

There is not 'airbending' gene nor any other 'airbending gene'. You are born with the ability to BEND.Bending is a talent like singing or being good at the piano.In the Avatarworld bending is a talent with a small genetic basis,but with an underlying spiritual basis. I believe its been stated before that sokka had the potential to waterbend but never discovered it because of his lack of spirituality and skeptical personality. What element you can bend is not based on genetics. It could be heritage:spiritual heritage or something,but there should be no logical reason why there is an 'airbending gene' when airbending was taught to them by sky bisons and were the first original airbenders. The same with all the other bending arts.

That would be like saying the avatar is born with all four 'element genes' which is not likely at all. The Avatar throws a wrench into the whole "you can't be this bender without the bloodline of that nation". Each avatar is from one of the nations and i don't think each avatar has the ability to bend each element because of some kind of gene or bloodline.

If people are going to persists on saying that you have to be a part of a bloodline(genetic) to bend a certain element then i have a few questions that MUST be answered:

1.)How does something that was learned from animals become genetic.

2.)How can the Avatar bend the four elements when they are from 1 of the four nations each cycle?

3.)If what element you can bend is based on some form of 'elemental gene' then why was it stated by the Lion turtle that everyone bent the energy within themselves before the ERA of the avatar? Is energybending genetic too? Even though it was stated that it was common? Amon energybending says he got the knowledge of how to do from the spirits. Did the spirits give him an energybending gene or loci?

4.)If what element you can bend is based on genetics then why do firebenders and waterbenders lose the ability to bend during an eclipse and when the moon is gone? Does the firebending & waterbending gene get 'turned off'? This argument can also be used to discredit the statement that the ability to bend itself is genetic...if anyone wishes to do so.

5.)If what element you can bend is based on genetics then i wish to know why firebenders are more powerful during the middle of the day and waterbenders at night?

'Furthermore the division between the nations and the elements has been stated to be an illusion. The elements are one and the four nations are one. All of them are connected with each other.'