Talk:Bending Arts/@comment-68.101.212.19-20101124224709/@comment-68.12.86.111-20101128064328

It's not that it's a dark side. Just as fire bending was not inherently evil, neither is any form of it. (Uncle) Iroh described lightning as the purest form of fire bending. If fire bending is not evil, then certainly it's purest form isn't evil either.

As for blood bending, that's not a pure form. If anything, it's tainted by the fact that it's mixed with blood. This does not make it evil in the same way that lightning is not evil. The old lady also pulled water from plants and trees, this is an unnatural separation (i.e. she does not teach pure lessons of bending).

Knives are not inherently evil either, but they can be used in evil or impure ways. Such is the way of blood bending. A tool in the water bender's belt used in improper ways. Blood bending could probably be used in many positive ways. Water benders sometimes have healing abilities, imagine if somebody had a blood clot? Blood bending could be the solution.