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Legend of Korra: PANIC!!!! Episode 4 Is Uploaded!!!!
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comet didn't last the whole war
gave a pretty fantastic boost at the beginning but if Sozin wanted to start a war he would have started a war
it gave them the boost to exterminate an entire people with the exception of the one who happened to be frozen underwater
the point is that non-benders are not the defenseless victims Amon makes them out to be
criminals will always prey on the weak, if the shopkeeper had been a young physically fit man that situation would have gone differently
if Amon was simply interested in passing more self-defense techniques to people then :^:
this is what you're positing
3 vs. 1 is just another way for criminals to unbalance the odds, which has nothing to do with bending
3 young non-benders vs. 1 old bender wouldn't go so smooth either
the reason he was alone is because the rest of the street was terrified of their magical abilities
the whole genocide did not take place in one day
'cause the old guy would kick their asses. Bumi, Iroh...heck, anyone from the White Lotus.
that shit is known
exceptionally trained outliers :whistle:
nope
see, it doesn't work both ways, because bending is the advantage
why not
the entire airbender population was centralized in three locations and were taken by complete surprise by a coordinated attack of what was essentially the firebombing of dresden in human form
even when outnumbered a bender won't lose to a bunch of non-benders, except when a group of chi-blockers overpowers the avatar
also benders have societal privilege and power except for all the ones that don't
and all the non-benders in position of privilege and power are just rare exceptions
because it is stated that is not the case
the Comet allowed them to make a powerful first strike on the Air Nomads, but many escaped (because evasion is their thing) and they had to hunt them all down
but really this point is silly because the nations would be radically different without bending in their history. I'm just saying that stopping bending won't stop wars.
what you're saying here is kill all firebenders
ain't never heard anybody complain about waterbenders killing their family
yep!
one time I was eating a snocone
a waterbender used his bending to spill the snocone
waterbenders are not innocent
that's a waterbender oppressing you
Its a good thing that democracy never results in the election of demagogs! Amon for Reichskanzler!
You need to address the underlying issues as well; democracy lets a healthy society choose what it wants to do, unhealthy societies with democracy will just choose unhealthy things.
That said, the ability to turn someone normal isn't at all equal with the ability to turn someone into ashes.
I always thought of benders as the "embodiment of X lifestyle" rather than superheroes. The scene from the Fortune Teller's village with the twins digging a protective trench, one with a shovel the other with earth bending, treats them on equal footing. The bending twin has the ability to do more, certainly, but he isn't regarded as better or more important than the other twin. Benders just seem to be closer to the teachings and personalities given to each country.
— Robert Heinlein
no matter how good he gets with that shovel he will never be able to move earth like a skilled earthbender
which his brother will one day be
and he'll just be there with his shovel
imperialist mentality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'état
which led to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet
so Dis, who would you choose? democratically-elected Salvador Allende or CIA-supported Augusto Pinochet?
What the heck? I never said democracy was bad you silly goose, democracy is awesome and should always be encouraged and respected. Its just not going to solve the underlying problems on its own.
God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well.
so what you're saying is it's hitler babies or abortion by ovens with you i get it
Yeah, I'm not saying the bending brother wasn't more powerful, I'm just saying that in the context of the village he was considered equal to the others. In the original show bending was just something that some people had and others didn't, they made a pretty solid point about them being on equal footing in society in season one.
Season two brought in the "Three on Three plus Sokka" benders are better problem, then immediately destroyed it as two of the three constantly putting the heroes on the defensive never used bending at all, just knives and chi blocking. Even in the fire nation you see that engineers and foot-soldiers are often as important (if not more so) than other operatives (such as the Rough Rhinos, all but one of which are non-benders) along with the Yu-Yan archers. In season three we see folks like Suki, Sokka, his master, the southern water tribe warriors (among others) and the engineer/inventor guy being as crucial to the war effort as benders as well.
Looking at the rulers and leaders, only the Fire Lord, the Dai Li and King Boomie were bending rulers, all three of which were so to present an authority equals ass-kicking rival for Aang's character growth. The rest of the authority figures are notably not benders (Earth King and his generals, North and South Water Tribes, Kiyoshi Warrior Village Elder (and pretty much every village elder they come across, many of the Fire Nation captains including the War Minister, the Inventor and his folk, The Bei Fong Family, the ruler of Chen the Magnificent's terrible village, etc.).
Benders are definitely more powerful innately, but before Korra they were just folk like anyone else. Folk with mighty skills. And anyone in the show with a mighty skill or mastery was shown as being powerful in their own right, while benders without discipline or skill are often simple mooks.
I'm not certain Amon's platform would have a voice anywhere but Republic City, from the context of the first show I would say probably not. Benders are something that exist, but it also seemed like they were no more in control than anyone else and, one could argue, more likely to be forced into conscription as almost every bender in the first show was either a soldier or a war prisoner, murdered, imprisoned, or on the run from bender soldiers.
— Robert Heinlein
my bad, man. itchy trigger finger.
well, it's good to know that you're not some kind of fascist.
Which is, of course, at the top.
Of the barrels of piss along with the other tanners and renderers.
— Robert Heinlein
Hah, great.
Its is an issue that we have several examples of where a society divided between a powerful minority and a less powerful majority becoming more democratic (where the majority now can use the power of their numbers via the voting process) has lead some very very bad places when either the minority fights back or the majority punish their former superiors too hard: see Rwanda, the opening of the French Revolution, etc.
Luckily that kind of bad place probably won't be explored in a kids show.
And where do ya think all that lant comes from in your beer and washroom? Ain't some magic alchemical compound. It's piss, man. Pure, refined piss.
— Robert Heinlein
They may have changed, you know
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Tanning.
Tanning never changes.
— Robert Heinlein
Fair enough, and if I had to place money, 12 to 7 they'll show it soon enough.
But, as odd as it is to say, Tal's sorta right. They haven't shown it much yet, and Amon's about as bad a source as you can get.
Again, I disagree on if the council's benders (figure the whole bunch is), and some other things. But he's right there hasn't been that much oppression shown so far, and Amon's already aimed at fanatic at best.
I could be totally wrong, as this is certainly a sophisticated enough show to go the other route, but I feel like people are creating conspiracy theories that aren't really supported, either
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