Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-184.7.99.119-20120603203155/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120604064422

What is "a part of life"? Freedom of speech and disagreement? Or jealousy?

Here's the thing: jealousy, like anger, or any other emotion, is simply an emotion, and doesn't itself have much of a moral value. That's true. But that doesn't make jealousy good, just as it doesn't make anger good. And anger and jealousy aren't equivalent, looking at it rationally. Anger, for instance, can be anger on behalf of someone else, anger at an injustice, for instance. Anger, thus, is not intrinsically oriented toward the self; but jealousy is. So, at the very least, jealousy is a more "selfish" emotion, and hence a more insidious one.

Again, none of this is to suggest that Asami is a terrible evil wicked controlling paranoid psycho woman. It's just to keep people from going off the deep end in her defense, and claiming something ridiculous like, "Because jealousy is natural, it's not problematic" or something.

Also: just to put myself out there, I like Korra as a character a LOT more than I like Asami. I really think Korra has matured a LOT so far, even putting Asami's "needs" over her own desires re Mako. Especially Asami's mistrust of Korra in episode 8, her opening her "home" to Asami, etc., she has no reason to doubt Korra. I know, I know, it was for "a second." I'm just sayin', is all. (Plus, it would be a waste of time to even show that "second" unless it were supposed to be important for us to see.)