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Equality is always thought to be this noble cause to fight for.

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And oftentimes it is.

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But like with so many things in the world, we can be

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too invested in the fight that we forget that

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forget about what we're even fighting for.

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But on today's episode, we'll be looking at a character who wanted to see equality in his own world.

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But his methods make you really question if he was in it for equality

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or just authority.

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And of course, I'm talking about the mass leader of the equalists, Aman.

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Hey, what's going on guys? My name is Nate. You're listening to the Otaku Liberation,

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a show where we help you break free from the chains that hold you back in your life

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by connecting biblical principles with themes from your favorite anime.

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And without further ado, let's get right on into it.

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And again, I know I say favorite anime and technically religion core isn't but

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it's close enough. So we're doing it anyway.

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And now for today's episode, there are three main points that I want to cover

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about about Aman and what he stood for.

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And they are again equality, revolution, and power.

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And I'm going to break down what each of those means to the character.

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So first we're going to start off with the motive behind Aman's fight for uh fight and what he stood for.

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And that was the notion of equality.

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So his motive was equality.

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So Aman fought for equality among benders and non-benders.

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And this whole idea, this whole belief stemmed from uh from his childhood, right?

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I'm sure a lot of us can kind of see that in

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not just Aman but different characters even some in our own beliefs and our own way of thinking.

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It typically stems from

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whether childhood trauma or just childhood memories and things like that.

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But in Aman's case, this stemmed from his belief that bending only caused suffering to others

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and that benders had an unfair advantage over non-benders.

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And this all really started when Aman, then known as Noatuk, which is his birth name,

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and his brother Tarlock were trained in the ways of blood bending by their father Yakone.

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And in order to really understand it, let's take a little deeper look at Yakone, Aman's father.

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And because we'll see where all of this started.

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So Yakone was a very powerful blood bender who could blend bend without a full moon.

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Which was previously unheard of and is honestly a super rare and powerful skill.

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And for those who don't know, blood bending is a

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technique of water bending or more of a sub bending style where water benders

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you know bend the blood, bend the water to moisture in another being's body

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and can basically become like puppet masters over them.

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It's really creepy but also in my opinion,

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one of if not the most powerful styles of bending because you can literally take control of other people.

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But the biggest caveat to that was that it was only possible during a full moon

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when water benders were at their strongest.

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But that changed with Yakone and eventually his kids Noatuk and Tarlock.

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So that's kind of that's what makes Yakone such a dangerous individual and by the way

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dangerous individual and by virtue his children as well.

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But in Yakone's case his bending was actually taken away by Avatar Aang.

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And this led Yakone to actually seek revenge on the Avatar.

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And he wanted to do so by turning his own sons into living weapons.

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And of course that means a lot of really harsh training which twisted Amon's idea.

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Because the harsh training and treatment that Yakone put his sons through

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caused Amon to become this cold and distant individual.

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He no longer felt this kind of love or peace that most normal people would have about them.

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He became very calculating and willing to do anything to accomplish his goal.

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And it was rough to say the least.

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And honestly Amon began to revel in his power of blood bending and what it had over people.

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Honestly now that I'm sitting here recording really this man's kind of a hypocrite right?

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Because he on one hand he felt like benders had an unfair advantage over non-benders and

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that they should be equalized.

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But it's also the same man that reveled in his own power as a blood bender.

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Arguably one of the most powerful benders outside of the Avatar themselves

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which is kind of weird.

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But anyway and this kind of twisted Amon's idea of justice and what it means.

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And this twisted idea led to the creation of the equalists in the anti-bending revolution.

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Because again he wants to even the playing field more or less.

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And he really feels like that benders shouldn't have the ability to bend.

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On one hand you would think he would go about it to equip non-benders with the tools to be able to

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defend themselves and things like that.

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Such as chi blocking and all the tools that he used in the show like the electrical gauntlets

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that the equals used and things like that.

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So it didn't have to be a terrorist about it.

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He could have I don't know opened up a class somewhere who knows.

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But that's not the road he chose.

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And for those who joined his cause they wanted to be free from the oppression that benders had

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placed on them.

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But the problem with this sentiment is that not all benders were the ones causing problems.

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The main culprits were the bending gangs in Republic City like the triple threat triads.

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And it also didn't help that the leaders of Republic City the United Republic Council

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were entirely made up of benders.

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Which made the non-benders feel as if they had no representation in their own city.

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And I can get that.

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So I see where the pressure points are with this whole ordeal.

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It wasn't so much that the benders that all benders were evil all benders were oppressing

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the non-benders.

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It was just the select few.

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But it was enough of them to start causing this issue.

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And it felt like the powers that be the ones governing the city weren't doing enough to

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correct this.

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And actually we know we look back at our own history and world right.

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If enough people start feeling like they're not being heard then revolution start in case

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point right.

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And yeah honestly it kind of just mirrors a lot of our real life scenarios where the

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majority in this case like benders are often punished for the sins of the few right.

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Because it wasn't just hey we're angry at these bending gangs for what they're doing

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to our people we're angry at all benders whether or not you've done anything bad or not.

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And of course this means this could be from the the airbender children who are just now

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being born to the avatar herself.

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And no one was safe from this.

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And no one was safe from this right.

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Everyone was a target.

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Every bender was a target.

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And so Amon sought to correct this within Republic City and eventually the entire world.

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Now he didn't want to just stop at equalizing Republic City and making it so everyone was

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on the same playing field.

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He wanted to spread this to the entire world and just basically commit bender genocide.

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And it's it's I'll tell you one thing you know he fits perfectly with this season's

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theme of ambition right.

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Because he he was really out there.

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But for me the fight of equality is is an admirable one.

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And honestly it's something that I personally stand behind.

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I think we should all be you know see ourselves as as equals because again we're all

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children of the Lord.

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We're all we're created with the same love and attention.

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Now how we express these things are different.

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I think we were different.

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We're not all the same.

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And and we need to acknowledge those differences and how we can use them to help each other.

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But no one is less than the other.

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And as a matter of fact let's look at what the Bible says about this.

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And Galatians chapter three verse twenty eight.

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This is there is no Jew or Greek slave or free male and female since you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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And this verse really speaks to the concept of equality and unity among believers and

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emphasizing that in Christ there is no distinction based on factors such as ethnicity social status

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or gender.

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And what that means is that in Christ he sees us all as his children.

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He loves us all.

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And there's no like just because I'm a black man doesn't mean he loves me any more than

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you know than a white woman or a Hispanic man or an Asian lady.

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You know we're all loved equally.

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And it's just this notion that since we are all loved equally that we shouldn't be trying

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to tear each other down for whatever the case may be.

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You know what I'm saying.

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But I know it's it's pretty hard for us as as people historically.

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To get along with each other and to not fight each other.

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But it's something that I think we should all strive for.

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And that's because basically we're all equal in the odds or lower.

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So that leads me to to a question.

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Justice equality and any other noble cause you fight for are all wonderful things.

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But how far are you willing to go to achieve your goals?

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And I ask this because honestly we have to be careful.

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We have to be careful with our ideals with our ambitions with our goals and dreams and

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things like that because the means don't always justify the end.

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And Amman himself is actually going to prove this for us.

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So now that we have a little bit a little bit of information on his motive let's take

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a look at the methods that Amman used to make his dream a reality.

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And that was the use of fear and hatred.

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Now, in theory, what Amman fought for was right.

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Again, this is the theme for this entire season.

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But in reality, he calls in even greater division among vendors and non vendors because of what

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he was doing.

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I mean, some of these things include openly threatening vendors and relishing in the fact

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that they were powerless against him.

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Stoking the hatred between vendors and non vendors causing them to be at odds with each

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other even more.

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And even going so far as kidnapping children and taking away their bending.

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Remember when I said nobody was safe and not even kids, kids who haven't even had the

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opportunity to do anything bad.

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He was just like, no, you're gone too.

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And this was this was a frightening time for Republic City because no one had there's

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never been a villain or a terrorist such as him because it what made him honestly, in my

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opinion, what made him so dangerous wasn't the fact that he was a blood bender.

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It wasn't the fact that he could take away bending, but it was the way he was able to

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get people to follow him.

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I mean, it's not it's not just Amman.

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And we see with the rest of Cora's villains as well, they all have this charismatic personality

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where they they're able to get people to join their cause and get them to do to do their

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work.

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But also they're not afraid to get down and dirty themselves, which honestly I can respect

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in a leader, but also again, it's just based them that much more of a difficult opponent

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for Cora.

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And especially for someone like Amman, because again, the ability to take away someone's

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bending was thought to only be possessed by the Avatar.

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But as we see, as we see here, that that's not that's no longer the case.

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So Cora has to reconcile that with herself.

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OK, how can I take this guy down with an ability that I should I should only have?

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And I'm telling you right now, it wasn't easy.

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It wasn't easy.

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And the reason that Amman did all of these things again, the threats, the kidnapping,

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the removing of bending, the stoking the flames of hatred, he did all of this just so he can

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bring the animosity between vendors and non-benders to a boiling point.

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And it was so bad that despite Cora's best efforts, she couldn't even calm the citizens

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of Republic City.

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And the city itself was about to be ripped apart because of this because of this movement,

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because of this animosity.

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And which is sad.

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I mean, Amman had the city right where he wanted it.

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And when it comes to hatred and anger and all these things, this is this is what the

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Bible says about it, because it's not none of us good.

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We know it's not good, but let's see why it's not good.

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And it says in Proverbs chapter 10, verse 12, hatred stirs up conflicts, but love covers

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all offenses.

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And this verse really captures the idea that hatred fuels conflicts and discord and that

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love has the power to forgive and eventually even overlook these offenses.

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Now, am I saying that Cora should just love Amman and everything be hunky dory?

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No, of course not.

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But the concept of the love versus the hatred is that right now, non-benders are hating

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vendors because they feel oppressed.

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Because again, like I said earlier, the gangs that are in Republic City are oppressing the

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people or really being abusive and the non-benders feel like they have no representation.

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So instead of going to war against each other, we should look at the people who are in the

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public city and who are against each other.

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We should have learned to, or they should have been able to learn to accept each other

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for the differences.

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And the vendors who aren't committing these atrocities should have stood up for the non-benders

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against the gangs in Republic City, because gang violence and stuff like that is detrimental

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to everybody, not just the non-benders, but everyone in the city.

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So it would be nice if the vendors who weren't committing these things came together with

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the non-benders who were being oppressed and fought back.

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I honestly think that maybe something, this scenario with Amman and the equalists wouldn't

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have happened.

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I'd really believe that, but it did.

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And this is where we are.

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And I know for me, not so much like a hatred, but you just anger and emotions in general,

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they can overwhelm and override logic a lot of the time.

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And if we're not careful, our emotions, especially negative ones like fear and hatred,

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can cause us to lose sight of the real goal that we're even striving for.

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And we can be caught up in the throes of ambition and we're just really just go, go, go, go,

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go on this thing 100%.

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But if we're not careful, it can honestly lead us to not only destroy ourselves, but

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to honestly go against the very thing that we're even fighting for.

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But I'm just thinking back to the whole equalist movement, right?

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How he wanted something that honestly was a very pure idea, but he was just like, nope,

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I'm going to burn the world down just to get it, which kind of defeats the purpose, right?

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And I don't know, Amman's just an interesting character to me.

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I hate that he went out the way he did, but I think he's just a very interesting character

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to me to be honest with you.

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I don't know why he went out the way he did, but the ideas behind him were interesting.

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But again, his use of fear and hate just amplified the problem.

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He sought the fix.

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Again, back to this whole thing of he's just going all in on this crazy idea or this crazy

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method, I should say, to make his idea a reality, making the problem a hundred times worse.

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But so right now we're going to go over the result of Amman's actions, which may surprise

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you was actually a brighter future.

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I know I spent this last, I don't know how many minutes talking about how too much ambition,

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at least in the wrong, with the wrong methods can be detrimental to your vision.

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But in Amman's case, it was actually kind of worked out.

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So let me let me kind of explain.

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So while Amman's grand plan of ridding the world of bending may have been a failure,

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the impact he had brought, the impact he had brought international awareness to problems

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that non vendors had to face in Republic City.

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And what I mean by that is that because of Amman and his actions, it kind of pulled back

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the pull back the lid on all of the problems that we were talking about earlier in this

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episode of non-bender facing just the oppression, the non representation, the things like that.

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You know, Amman more or less kind of became a martyr to be to be fair.

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And everyone was like, OK, this was a problem.

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The fact that it took a terrorist that almost destroyed the city with his riots and whatnot,

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it took this in order for us to get to pay attention to these things.

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And so, OK, let's reevaluate what we're doing here.

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And so the biggest win from this whole conflict was the actually the dissolution of the United

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Republic Council.

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Again, the Council of all vendors representing each of the nations.

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So the northern southern water tribes, the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom and Tenzin,

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who represented the Air Nation, which was like five at this point.

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But they all decided to step down and have a Democratic president over a public city

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so the people can vote who was in power.

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And actually, the first president, Raiko, was actually a non-bender who won by the majority

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vote.

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So now non-benders have representation in their own government for their city.

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And as someone who's being a non-bender themselves, he can relate to the woes of non-benders in

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his own city a little bit better.

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And so it was actually all worked out, not worked out for the better, surprisingly enough.

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So what does this all mean?

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It means that despite Amman's tactics and twisted desires, the promise of equality for

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non-benders and vendors was that much closer, if not there already.

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Because again, this is a huge win having Raiko be their Democratic voted president.

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Honestly, Amman may have been the first villain that Cora faced, but he wasn't really that

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evil, at least in my opinion.

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I mean, he was misguided definitely towards the end of his life.

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But I can't really say he was completely evil.

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I mean, his childhood shaped him into the revolutionary that he was.

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Now again, that doesn't excuse his actions, but it does show that his intentions were

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just, his methods weren't.

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And again, like I said, the theme of this entire season is that good intentions can

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have bad consequences if you're not putting them in the right place.

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And it is easier said than done, but that's something that we all have to keep in mind.

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It's like, okay, what are we striving for?

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Why are we doing these things?

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And how can we do it in the best way without causing harm to ourselves or other people

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or anything like that?

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So yeah, don't be a terrorist guys.

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But hey, did you like this episode?

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Please let me know in the comments down below or even leave a review.

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But whatever you do, please share with somebody that you think needs to hear this message

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or who just likes the Legend of Cora.

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Either one works for me.

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Come back next week where I'll be going over a character who wanted the world to go back

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to spiritual roots, but he decided to do it by plunging it into eternal darkness.

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I know really weird.

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These characters are way out there, but can you guess who it is?

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Let me know what you guys think down below, but whether you guess it or not, I want you

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to always remember you are the main character of your story and that story doesn't end until

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he says so.

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All right.

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Be blessed.