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the fire nation people: guilty or innocent?

what about the fire nation folk?

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    vaatilover

    [1]Jan 1, 2007
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    i made this blog cuz nobody really knows if all fire nation people are bad or are they all innocent folk?

    would they be like earth people or water people? or do they too want that all nations exept firenation get killed?

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    Lord-darkboy

    [2]Jan 1, 2007
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    vaatilover wrote:

    i made this blog cuz nobody really knows if all fire nation people are bad or are they all innocent folk?

    would they be like earth people or water people? or do they too want that all nations exept firenation get killed?

    example from WW2 in the start all germans (ALL) where for it but when time passed some wanted to stop and other wanted to continue so everyone had his/her decision

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    Eyes_Only61646

    [3]Jan 1, 2007
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    Also, think of it from the F.N.'s side. In midevil times, if you went against the lord or whatever you were killed. There were probably protestors back at the start, but I have a feeling they were made 'examples' of. Think public hangings but Fire-Style.

    And the war has, as the other 2/3 nations complain about, torn families apart. How many Fire Nation wives, sisiters, children, etc. had to watch their loved ones be, quite likely, dragged away because if they said no there'd be some "If You Don't Join??The Army??Your Family Will Pay" thing.

    And the propaganda that anyone in a dictatorship deals with. Whole generations have been fed the same garbage, like what Zuko was monologing about in SotNP. There really isn't much else they can base their ideas on since the only interaction the F.N. has with the other nations??is to attack them.

    All Fire Nation people probably think their own way about the war, just look at Jeong-Jeong. I just think Ozai and the other Fire Lords have oppressed them and kept them in the dark for so long they don't really know better.

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    kataang4eva081

    [4]Jan 1, 2007
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    Well, Aang and the the gang are obviously going to head into the FN, so we will probably see some "Its not as great as you think action". Like propaganda, torn apart families, many widows and orphans, maybe even some oppresssiona and proverty toward the people like Jeong Jeong who know what is happening is wrong.
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    Eyes_Only61646

    [5]Jan 1, 2007
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    kataang4eva081 wrote:
    Well, Aang and the the gang are obviously going to head into the FN, so we will probably see some "Its not as great as you think action". Like propaganda, torn apart families, many widows and orphans, maybe even some oppresssiona and proverty toward the people like Jeong Jeong who know what is happening is wrong.
    Undoubtedly. I read a thing somewhere that said there'd be Fire Rebels who were fighting against the Fire Lord and war.
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    argos_87

    [6]Jan 1, 2007
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    Lord-darkboy wrote:
    vaatilover wrote:

    i made this blog cuz nobody really knows if all fire nation people are bad or are they all innocent folk?

    would they be like earth people or water people? or do they too want that all nations exept firenation get killed?

    example from WW2 in the start all germans (ALL) where for it but when time passed some wanted to stop and other wanted to continue so everyone had his/her decision

    Oh please stop being ignorant. It's a well-known fact that the VAST MAJORITY of the German people opposed the war from DAY ONE. The Germans were eager to go to war in 1914, but one of Hitler's biggest failures was to prep the Germans for another war. The Germans tolerated the war because of their loyalty to a regime that seemed good to them, but only the fiercest nazi's actually supported it. The only time the Germans actually got enthusiastic about the war was in 1940, when Hitler seemed to be winning, but this enthusiasm quickly died down when the war didn't end that year, never to return...

    As for the firenation, no, I don't think the people are ever to blame. They don't make the decision, especially in what seems to be a highly dictatorial, autocratic nation such as the Firenation. Sure, they are prone to propaganda, but so are the other bending nations. I really doubt that the people of the Firenation are somehow inheretly evil. Remember, there were also millenia of peace between the Firenation and the rest of the world, before Sozin started the war.
    Edited on 01/01/2007 3:37pm
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    Eyes_Only61646

    [8]Jan 1, 2007
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    ((I like this answer, but the percentage hurts))---> the folk is innocent, the firenationking is bad.22% [2]?? .
    ((So, all Germans are bad?? All Iraqi's want to blow everybody up? All Japanese men enjoyed being dragged away to fight? Sterotypes are bad, even in cartoons))---> the folk doesnt mind of the killing of other nations.22% [2]????.
    ((Probably a close answer. Loosing everything by speaking up, or standing by and turning a blind eye?))---> the folk is againts the war but they dont do something agianst it.22% [2]????
    ((True. Not even propaganda can smother all the happy-friendly feelings in someone))---> every one has his/hers own opion33% [3]??
    ((Glad nobody's?? picked this. Kinda sad, really, if ya did...))---> i look at the answers from others cuz i dont know which is the most opvious.0% [0]??
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    MajehKing

    [9]Jan 1, 2007
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    Some for it, some against it. But mostly I believe most of the Fire people are ignorant of just what their government is doing in their name.
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