Date: 2025-02-23 10:19 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] kalaong
Whoa, Nellie. Zuko(and Vathara) show some *truly* screwed-up "values" here; "The removal of a threat is not a payment, the negation of a negative is not a reward, the withdrawal of your armed hoodlums is not an incentive, the offer not to murder me is not a value.”

The whole "parole" thing - "you promised your total surrender if I didn't hurt anyone in that village, and I should have gone back and killed everyone when you escaped" - is blatant protection racketeering, and if Vathara's Fire Nation did it regularly, they *deserved* Kyoshi's storm a dozen times over.

Hakoda mumbles about the Fire Nation having "simple rules on rebellion, do it and die" but ignores how that's a pretty good reason to wipe *them* out; in China 209 BC, generals Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were delayed by a rainstorm, which was punishable by death. They realized that the punishment for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and started an uprising.
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