The Avatars purpose was to bring peace and balance, yet if they just let Amon remove everyones bending, it would be better balanced and there would be no need for war as Team Avatar wouldnt conflict with Amon
Still unclear about this
The Avatars purpose was to bring peace and balance, yet if they just let Amon remove everyones bending, it would be better balanced and there would be no need for war as Team Avatar wouldnt conflict with Amon
Still unclear about this
I think this illustrates how great an allegory the Equalist conflict was for fighting social inequality in our own world. Political machines, mafia and gang activity, oligarchic governments, etc. are all things that we see in the real world just as much, if not more, as in the Avatar World. Its for this reason that Ia have a difficult time saying that there is one path to "social equality" in the Avatar World, because us sans-bending can't even figure it out.
That said, I do think that attempting to homogenize all of the Republic City and later the world wouldn't have led to peace and balance. Homogeneity and fundumentalism tend to break out societies. Great nations are diverse ones.
I suspect Amon was aware of this route, but as he wanted to seize power rather than promote true, peaceful balance, he chose the easier route and played to humanity's darker side, to pent up hate and anger at the status quo while painting benders as the ultimate scapegoat.
It's worth noting, however, that both of those movements were tenuously tredding on violence the entire time, and when both movements splintered more violent conflict emerged. The entire reason we cite those two movements in the first place is just because they are remarkable, but also because they are undoubtably the path less taken. When humans get angry, they prefer violent revolution over anything else. The Equalist Revolution is the far more expected route from humans, especially when its de-facto inequality they are fighting, not direct government law.
Oh, I'm well aware of humanity's generally violent nature. I just brought up those two movements to point out there was a better way for Amon to get actual equality that didn't draw the ire of the Avatar (which is pretty much asking for your movement to be struck down). The way Amon went about his campaign of terror, to me, points to not truly wanting social equality, but rather amassing a power base and needlessly whip up conflict.
No.
No what?
Tarlokk mentioned Noahtok wanted everyone to be treated equally. The equalists liked him as a leader and he respected the equalists well. Every death in the series was caused by something over bending
-The moon spirit was killed to disable waterbending, Yue became the moon spirit to restore it
-Tarlokk killed himself due to his bending abuse
-Jet's family including himself, and Makos parents were killed by benders
And with the Fire nation, they used Sozins comet as a primary fire bending amplifyer for killing people
It would help, the world is evolving and technology can make up for it
-The moon spirit was killed to disable waterbending, Yue became the moon spirit to restore it
-Tarlokk killed himself due to his bending abuse
-Jet's family including himself, and Makos parents were killed by benders
And with the Fire nation, they used Sozins comet as a primary fire bending amplifyer for killing people
It would help, the world is evolving and technology can make up for it
Every death in the series was caused by evil people who place no value on life. Your reasoning blames the bending, rather than the bender.
I would argue the deaths of those characters were over more than just bending. Zhao killed the moon spirit to end waterbending, yes, but not just for the sake of ending waterbending. He wanted to do so in order to render the Water Tribe defenseless and further the Fire Nation's goals of world domination (not to mention boost his own ego).
Tarrlok I believe killed himself to atone for his selfish and thirst for power by eliminating a powerful threat. He didn't abuse his bending all that much, more so his political powers.
Jet died because he was interfering with Long Feng's carefully constructed web of lies and deceit, not for any conflict over bending. His parents were casualties of war, just like all those who died on a spear rather than from a fire blast. The soldiers being benders had nothing to do with their deaths.
The Fire Nation used the power of Sozin's Comet in order to start a war they viewed as essential for making the world a better place. If it weren't firebending, it would have been technology that helped to slaughter the Air Nomads. It was not bending that motivated the Fire Nation, but an idea.
It's not bending that's the problem. It's people, their reckless goals, and their lack of empathy. Bending is a tool, just like any piece of technology. It can be used to construct or destroy, all depending on who is wielding it. If anything, bending and technology are co-existing rather well, even thriving off each other. For instance, the firebender power plants are an excellent way to generate clean power, much better than coal, which we're still using for the majority of power today.
No he realy hated bending, I still do not agree with him.
Tarrlok I believe killed himself to atone for his selfish and thirst for power by eliminating a powerful threat. He didn't abuse his bending all that much, more so his political powers.
Jet died because he was interfering with Long Feng's carefully constructed web of lies and deceit, not for any conflict over bending. His parents were casualties of war, just like all those who died on a spear rather than from a fire blast. The soldiers being benders had nothing to do with their deaths.
The Fire Nation used the power of Sozin's Comet in order to start a war they viewed as essential for making the world a better place. If it weren't firebending, it would have been technology that helped to slaughter the Air Nomads. It was not bending that motivated the Fire Nation, but an idea.
It's not bending that's the problem. It's people, their reckless goals, and their lack of empathy. Bending is a tool, just like any piece of technology. It can be used to construct or destroy, all depending on who is wielding it. If anything, bending and technology are co-existing rather well, even thriving off each other. For instance, the firebender power plants are an excellent way to generate clean power, much better than coal, which we're still using for the majority of power today.
Okay, The entire war stemmed from not placing value on human life. But atleast your point was made more clearly. I can probably unfollow this thread since I forgot too.