Talk:Firebending/@comment-5142514-20120829005757/@comment-130.18.177.203-20120829013437

Yeah, power corrupts. Especially when that power involves fear. Most people have an inherent fear of fire, so being able to firebend around nonbenders means you've got something that they fear at your beck and call from the time you figure out that you can shoot fire out your fingers at a young age. That's enough to give anyone a mean streak. And Zhao and Azula were already predisposed to instability, therefore that mean streak had a far easier time turning into a straight up sadistic streak. There may be a vein of instability running through a lot of firebenders, or perhaps the only ones we really saw using their power were soldiers who worked for one of the most vicious rulers the fire nation ever had, rather like nazi soldiers working for shitler.