re: Avatar: The Legend of Korra Books 3 and 4 Thread (Book 4 premieres in October)

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I'm not talking about those specific Dai Li agents. I'm talking about the Dai Li as an organization. Long Feng turned them into what they became. And those people would be locked up and banished or whatever. But Avatar Kyoshi created them, trained them because as Ba Sing Se grew, too many clashes among the various peoples from different parts of the Earth Kingdom would spring up. So she wanted there to be a mediator/police force to keep the peace. I'm sure there was a population explosion after the war. They'd still need police. Why not use the same group?

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Its irrelevant on what they were founded to do. They went way, way outside their boundaries and became corrupt to their core. You can't make any real use of a horribly corrupt organization like that except to do horribly corrupt things. It is in their very nature now, and they can not be truly controlled. They are solely in it for power.

If the CIA was found out to have taken over the nation, was found out, and then sold us off to the Russians to the point of where our entire government was basically obliterated, do you think they'd reinstate the CIA once the US got back into power? No, they wouldn't. They would try every single member of the CIA, and if found guilty, execute or imprison them for life. Sure, they may have formed some other intelligence agency, but they'd completely build it from the ground up and have significantly higher regulations on that succeeding organization. No way the Dai Li functioning in the same way under the same name would have been around.

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And if Aang could not kill Ozai, he's pussy enough to forgive the Dai Li.

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Maybe not kill the Dai Li, but he wouldn't forgive them. Their crimes were on level with Ozai's, no way he wouldn't want to see them imprisoned.

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And about lava. I agree that a earthbender should be able to manage it. But not every person seems to be able to bend lightning, though anyone seems to be able to redirect it. Could be a simple matter of innate talent and raw power. Same as with bloodbending.

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Yeah, I agree. It is just one guy who can really do it.