Talk:Fire Nation/@comment-201.42.190.193-20120318192313/@comment-207.233.77.134-20120321183354

and what do most empires do to the people who wish to keep their traditional culture instead of embracing a tyrants ideal? (examples range from Constantine killing pagans who refused to embrace the church, to the crusades, to 1960's communist russia's persecution of religious ideas, and modern-day post revolution china. Do I even need to mention the reason for the war in the middle east?) The FN forced their ideals and beliefs on the EK people at the point of a sword (or fear of being burned). From their point-of-view they were simply expanding their empire and making the world a better place by sharing their ideals with the savages and if the EK people wouldn't accept them, they deserved to be killed for their rejection of the fire lord. When in reality they were destroying a rather advanced culture with it's own pros and cons and uniqueness just to satisfy the Royal family's thirst for conquest. an exmaple from our world would be like what the Crusades did to the Muslims, or what communist Russia did to the church, or like what the Under Heaven system of medieval china did to those so called "savages".

If someone truly wishes to bring someone to his point of view, (and culture) it is best done through love, kindness, charity, and sharing and examining ones ideas peacefully, (like the Greeks did to the culture of the Romans) not by forcing ones beliefs upon another by wiping out their culture Like the FN did to the EK and WT.