If Bloodbending is not considered an influential art that it corrupting, why else was it deemed an illegal art?
Because it's too powerful. It's like if there was a way for anyone to gain as much power as the Avatar State, it would be illegal because you don't want to take chances with that kind of power. And to be honest, Korra could stop a lot of villains by using bloodbending, so not using it is kind of stupid.
And look at the people you are trying to use to prove your point. A war prisoner who is mentally unstable due to being kept in a cage surrounded by fire and probably suffered many other horrors in the hands of the FN soldiers, a mafia boss, and two kids who were raised by an abusive father. The only one you can say was "seduced" is Yakone. And the other bloodbender is Katara, who wasn't "seduced". I can't believe i'm writing this but, like Robin said, it is either seductive or it isn't. Even Katara used it out of anger against the current commander of the Southern Raiders. Bloodbending is as corrupted as any other bending. You could say firebending corrupts based on Sozin and Ozai, while ignoring Iroh saying he just doesn't like forcing his will on others. Or you can say the same for airbending based on Zaheer, while countering the thousands of peace loving air nomads by saying the reason they meditated and tried so hard to supress their human nature was because they had to counter airbending's corruptive power. You're taking people with extreme circunstances and making them as the rule, while ignoring the only normal person there[Katara] and saying she is an exception.
Hmmm, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the whole point of bloodbending is taking control of another person's body and forcing them to do things against their will. It's not like most societies see violations of personal automony as a serious moral wrong or anything like that, so why else could it...
...Oh wait. That's exactly why. Try thinking before you post kid. 99% of the questions you ask here have ridiculously obvious answers.
Marc Zaddy wrote: ...What did this thread even turn into?
It just turned into an expanded reason to why Tarrlok committed a murder-suicide.
And we disagree on why.
"History often repeats." He tried to prevent it by sacrificing himself and his brother, delaying a similar event.
At the end Tarrlok looked back on the trauma he and Noatuk took from their father and he recognized that instead of escaping it, the were both corrupted by it.
I think in the end he believed they were both too damaged to ever really reform, and that maybe death was the only real way to escape their father's shadow.
I suspect Noatuk felt it too.
I know you commented this 6 years ago but I want to thank you for sharing this interpretation. I can't believe it had zero kudos before I got here.
With your's and Alexander's input (https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-Noatak-knew-Tarrlok-was-gonna-blow-up-the-boat-hence-why-he-cried) I can now truly appreciate how beautifully the writers ended the season. Knowing that they had to wrap up Noatak & Tarrlok's storylines before season 2, their ending did not feel rushed at all. It was perfect. :,)
And those are adults, so you can imagine that the effect would be even more pronounced if a child were raised in that environment, & even more than that, actively taught that this was the right way to behave. Sadly, a lot of kids who grow up in abusive homes grow up to be abusive themselves.
As with many phenomena, the best way to break that cycle is to make people aware of it. People who understand how the cycle of abuse works are much less likely to write off early signs of abuse, & so they aren't as likely to stay involved with an abuser. And therapists generally agree that abusers CAN change with professional help, but the problem is, most simply don't want to.
Yeah. One in-universe abuser who could've changed his ways but choose not to was Yakone.