Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-74.90.24.140-20120702100117/@comment-69.250.169.99-20120704211622

Ever consider that, rather than bloodbending being the cause of "madness", that it's the people who're attracted to bloodbending that already have some predisposition towards "madness"? Was Hama's insanity a result of learning how to bloodbend? Or what it the imprisonment and abuse at the hands of the Fire Nation, to say nothing of the trauma of witnessing her entire village being taken away? Noatak and Tarrlok's issues probably stemmed from having an abusive father who treated them like objects and had them learn bloodbending so that he could use them to enact his revenge. So far, we haven't seen anyone learn bloodbending under healthy conditions, so it's irresponsible to condemn the entire skill, especially given that our sample size of active bloodbenders can be counted on one hand. This is like looking only at Sozin, Ozai, Zhao, and Azula to determine the nature and psychological effects of firebending.