<p>not like that if they have a shield or are skilled with weapons they can still be a force to be reckoned with and the equalists and Ty lee aren't the only users of chi-blocking. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>Avatar thoyrn wrote:
look at the equalists they were just as violent as any bender could be and created much more damage I think the equalists could've gone about there message much better they were acting like the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) when they could've gone about it like martin Luther king junior with peaceful protests then their message would've been brought up much better.</i></div>
<p>I agree. Maybe they started that way. </p>

it would be really good to see the beginning of the equalists in their years of "hiding in the shadows".

<p>Yeah!! </p>

<p>Amon has the same problem with his ideology as most fanatics, he makes broad generalizations that represent only a very small minority of the target group, then proceeds to demonize the entire group for the actions of a very few.  It would be as if someone came forth and claimed that amputees are discriminated against due to not having all their limbs, and thus everyone else in the world should have their limbs chopped off to make things fair for everyone.  That, in essence, was what his plan was. </p><p>Overall, I would wager that 90% of all benders are every bit as good and decent as everyone else in the world, regardless of their bending.  That small minority who do abuse their bending are, unfortunately, far more likely to draw attention to themselves, thus creating the illusion that all benders victimize and oppress non-benders, and that all benders are elitist and have massive economic advantages over non-benders, even though that really wasn't shown to be the case. </p>

...or was it?

<p>I don't think Chin the Conqueror was a bender, nor was his village citizens. Otherwise, he wouldn't die by falling beside a rocky cliff. </p>

<p>Huo-Ting's plan to capture the airbenders and use them was a notion made by a non-bender. If anything, some non-benders have proved to be just as scheming about the use of bending as a weapon and for violence than those with the ability are. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>Avatarfan46 wrote:
Huo-Ting's plan to capture the airbenders and use them was a notion made by a non-bender. If anything, some non-benders have proved to be just as scheming about the use of bending as a weapon and for violence than those with the ability are.</i></div>
<p>But if those Airbenders didnt have Airbending, that wouldnt happen... </p>

<p>If it wasn't airbending, it would have been physical strength or cunning. The Queen was gearing up for a fight with the URN, she would have conscripted anyone who would have given her an advantage. Just taking the bending away wouldn't have changed the Queens intentions, just her methods. </p>