Hm. See, I didn't like the anti-revenge message Aang was sending. I think she was justified in killing the man who murdered her mother. (Murder of an unarmed civilian noncombatant? A MOTHER? Bastard in the highest degree.) Still, revenge does have a lot of grey lines, and it's much easier to see all of them when you're standing in an unbiased perspective, like Aang was. I don't think he was coming across as hypocritical, though: Aang's motivation hasn't been about revenge. He's killed while in the Avatar State, which is clearly not really him, but even then the motivation was to save something or someone or beat off attackers. He could have been consumed by hatred of the Fire Nation, but as we see, he's willing to give them a second chance. It seemed to me like he wanted Katara to go and find her mother's killer and confront him and find closure, but not to 'stain her soul' with coldblooded murder or become consumed in the need for revenge, like Hama was.
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