Talk:Equalists/@comment-76.2.216.148-20120408014007/@comment-2.102.137.167-20120409072831

Bending is meant to be a combo of genetics and spirituality. Remember the identical twins in the Fortune Teller's village. One of them could bend and the other could not. Also Bumi (Aang's son) can not bend, and he's the son of the Avatar, and a waterbender. The spiritual factor has to be key to bending. So the way I figure it, many people have the genetic capacity to bend, but don't have the spiritual capacity to do so, and therefore cannot (or vice versa with some having the spiritual capacity, but not the genetic capacity), but they may have children born with both who can therefore bend. That is why benders can be born to non-benders and vice versa. That's just my theory though.