Talk:Amon/@comment-112.207.144.172-20120727050944

Just a comment on Amon's method of "ridding the world of bending" through "permanently blocking" the bending of benders.

If Amon's main goal was to "rid the world of bending" by "permanently blocking" other people's bending, then wouldn't that seem futile? He can never stop the generation of new benders from coming into their world. I mean, look at Yakone. His bending was taken away by Avatar Aang. Yet, he was still able to pass on his ability onto his two sons. In other words, even if Amon would be able to "strip away" the bending of every known bender in their universe, then he would have to do that indefinitely for the rest of his life because these "stipped" benders still possess the ability to reproduce children who would possibly be benders as well (unless of course if Amon would pass a law forbidding former benders from mating, but that would be a little bit too extreme, wouldn't you think?). Looking back, Amon mentions that he would "rid the world of airbending" by taking away the bending of the last airbenders. It wouldn't have really felt that dramatic if Amon knew that Tenzin and Pema can still reproduce airbenders if they wanted to, even if Tenzin's bending was stripped away. If Amon truly wanted to "rid the world of airbending", then the best way he could do that is to wipe out the entire family of Tenzin (not that I would want that to happen, but just work with me here). This reflects us back to the previous season, wherein the only effective way to wipe out an entire race of benders (or bending, for that matter) is to kill all the people with the ability. This just makes Amon's revolution a bit tiresome and strange. It was "built upon a lie" after all, according to Tarrlok. Oh well...