Talk:Amon/@comment-178.68.18.127-20111105111446/@comment-4575960-20111106174652

I say a dictator because bending is an inherent part of the people. By opposing the skill you automatically oppose of the people and their culture. After all it's not as though the benders choose to be born benders, they just are, and there's not really anything that they can do to change that. The only way that Amon could get rid of the bending would be to kill the benders, because bending defines who they are.

What you are suggesting is the equivalent of " Well hitler didn't despise the Jews, he just hated the Jew-y-ness of the Jews. If they had stopped being to Jew-y, he would have welcomed them with open arms into his kingdom of peace" (and yes I know I am uncreative to use him as an example but it's just to easy).

To summarize, he can't simply be fighting against the skill if the skill defines the people (which in this case it does).