Well Zuko must lack common instincts. Everyone (in theory) has a since of right and wrong. And when things are extremely wrong or bad they can tell. So either Zuko is just plain stupid and lacks natural instincts, or he is just plain evil and ignored them. So truth he is typically character with a weak persona and a pointless story arch.
[/QUOTE] If that's true for Zuko, then ALL the children who cheered when Fire Lord Ozai burnt the Earth Kingdom warrior to death while they were watching the puppet show in the episode The Deserter, are evil. And so are ALL the children who attended that Fire Nation school during the Headband episode, because they believed that it was okay for the Fire Nation to "Attack the Air Monk's vicious army". Anyhow, while (in theory) people have a moral sense of what is right and what is wrong, it has been proven that a person's moral sense can be changed by taught to counter-act that sense at a very young age. Would you expert an eight year old to intuitively KNOW that it is wrong to shoot somebody, if they have been trained to do so since they were two? Zuko would have been trained, basically since birth, to beleive that other nations were inferior to the Fire Nation. His sense of morality was non-existent, it was stunted and twisted by others. (An excellent example of this is how his father basically maimed him for suggesting that the lives of new Fire Nation recruits were worth more than the supposed needs of the rest of the Fire Nation.) Also, it has also been scientifically proven that people change their behavior under the presence of an authority figure. (In Zuko's case, Azula). A scientist, after the holocaust, wanted to prove that Germans were evil because they murdered so many Jews with only the excuse, "I did what I was told". The scientist pulled people off the street in areas of the United States that were heavily populated with Germans, and other areas that has only a small German population. He then told them that their job was to push a series of buttons to deliver an electric current to people he had strapped to a chair in another room. The electric current increased with each button, and ended in a voltage that would obviously kill the person strapped into the chair. In reality, there was only a tape recording of the other person screaming, and nobody was electrocuted. But over half the people pulled off the street pushed every single button when berated by an authority figure every time they stopped. (It turned out that there was no statistically significant difference between Germans and the rest of the American population though, so Germans were not proven to be any more evil than the rest of the world.) So clearly, Zuko does NOT lack common instincts, and therefore, through your line of arguing, about half of the world population is either plain stupid, or of a weak constitution.[/QUOTE]
Well if that is your opinion have fun with it. All I'm hearing is excuses. I don't like him. I think he is weak and pointless. Sorry.
