Just. War. Doctrine. It actually does matter which side started it.
*Sigh* "I could not love thee half so much loved I not honour more." Guru Pathik is in the right here, and Aang bloody well knows how powerful a motive love is because it nearly killed him. Gyatso should be explaining the difference between love and attachment, because that is what Aang's problem was - he didn't know the difference, so he thought they were the same thing. They're not, and I really wish more people understood that.
Of course, if people understood that then there'd be a lot fewer fics where all Anakin needs to not fall is to discover that his marriage isn't forbidden after all - oh wait, that'd be a good thing. (Seriously, his problem isn't that he got married without permission, his problem is that he'd rather murder people then lose his loved ones. I almost want to write a fic where his secret marriage comes out, it turns out it's no big deal, and he falls anyways.)
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*Sigh* "I could not love thee half so much loved I not honour more." Guru Pathik is in the right here, and Aang bloody well knows how powerful a motive love is because it nearly killed him. Gyatso should be explaining the difference between love and attachment, because that is what Aang's problem was - he didn't know the difference, so he thought they were the same thing. They're not, and I really wish more people understood that.
Of course, if people understood that then there'd be a lot fewer fics where all Anakin needs to not fall is to discover that his marriage isn't forbidden after all - oh wait, that'd be a good thing. (Seriously, his problem isn't that he got married without permission, his problem is that he'd rather murder people then lose his loved ones. I almost want to write a fic where his secret marriage comes out, it turns out it's no big deal, and he falls anyways.)