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2019-03-15, 07:15 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2018
- Location
- The Moral Low Ground
Re: My Reaction to Avatar the Last Airbender
fire nation legitimately bought great progress to the world. They went from medieval tech to having tanks and air balloons to having their own Hong Kong in only a few generations.
As far as their crimes go
They're not any worse than most historical -greater good- types. The earth nations were corrupt, lead by idiots, and didn't like eachother. And yes, by comparison they were primitive and far more unequal than the fire nation's lot.
The fire nation were the long-term good.
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2019-03-15, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
- Location
- Montreal
- Gender
Re: My Reaction to Avatar the Last Airbender
No. They were not. Fire Nation did good for the Fire Nation. Whatever good they did to other places was ultimately meant to be good for the Fire Nation.
The Southern Water tribe certainly wasn't benefiting from the Fire Nation's advanced technology. In fact, they were the victim of a comprehensive eugenic purge meant to weed out bending abilities.
The Air Nomads did not benefit from the Fire Nation technology either.
The Earth Kingdom was on the verge of being outright purge from the world.
Any notion that the Fire Nation actions were meant to be "good on the long run" is bull****.
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2019-03-15, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Location
- In my library
Re: My Reaction to Avatar the Last Airbender
I think we just hasn't to look at the difference between Legend of Aang and Legend of Korra to see the problems with the Fire Nation. The problem isn't the high level goal of sharing their progress with the rest of the world, it's:
-committing genocide because they know the Avatar will try to restore balance.
-ethic cleansing
-invasion of the Earth Kingdom
-suppression of Fire Nation culture*
Then individual members of the Fire Nation have their own moral event horizons, hello attempting to burn down the Earth Kingdom.
Comparatively in Legend of Korra the United Republic, Earth Kingdom, and Southern Water Tribe are all shown to be relatively equal to the Fire Nation in terms of technological development, because the Fire Nation pursued the same ends via trade and respect .
* Which is probably what hurts Aang the most.
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2019-03-15, 08:21 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2011
Re: My Reaction to Avatar the Last Airbender
Aang does play a key role as a symbol, something for the people to believe in. He's the prophecized child around who people can rally around. He doesn't actually need to do anything important, just show he's alive and healthy despite the fire nation's claims that all airbenders were exterminated. So yes, "the fire nation is looking for him and can't get Aang while he flies around the world openly challenging them" is quite important on itself.
The Fire Nation may've been smarter in just calmly supressing all those silly rumors about the avatar still being around while brutally crushing all the other rebels still resisting that didn't have god mode.
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2019-03-15, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2011
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- Odesa, Ukraine
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Re: My Reaction to Avatar the Last Airbender