The GOOD Sides of Blood Bending - Avatar the Last Airbender

Today at the Mystery Shack, we return to the world of Avatar the Last Airbender (and a little bit of Korra) to talk about one of the most controversial bending arts the series has to offer - blood bending. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/KorotosMysteryShack Second Channel : @KorotoTV https://www.youtube.com/c/KorotoTV Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/KorotosMysteryShack Twitter : https://twitter.com/KorotoMS Starforge PCs (Affiliate link) : https://starforgesystems.pxf.io/B0nnd0 ------------------------------------------------------- Further reading & links: ------------------------------------------------------- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hypertension#:~:text=Approximately%201%20in%205%20adults,cause%20of%20premature%20death%20worldwide. Cardiac muscle. (2024, May 27). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_muscle Thrombus. (2024, June 25). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombus https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/conditions/autoimmune https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today https://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2003/07/MITEI-The-Future-of-Nuclear-Power-Executive-Summary.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3791249/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-oppose-gmos-even-though-science-says-they-are-safe/ A mosaic illustration of hunter gatherers taken from William MacKenzie’s National Encyclopaedia (1891). Digitally enhanced from our own original plate. www.rawpixel.com/board/427285/rawpixel-original-lithographs https://www.flickr.com/photos/vintage_illustration/29510262138 A prehistoric man defends his family from an attacking bear: the man's family huddle together in a cave, while mammoths, a tiger (?), a rhinocerus and cattle roam in the landscape beyond. Colour lithograph, 1840/1900?. Created 1840/1900?. Paleontology. Work ID: vkk6erby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PuWp5JtK40&ab_channel=LivingWilderness%3ACraftsandSkills https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-quantum-mechanics-rule-out-free-will/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI5FMj5D9zU&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1229484/full https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20030449/ https://www.23andme.com/topics/traits/fear-of-heights/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227195207_Egocentric_Ethics Batson, C. D., Thompson, E. R., Seuferling, G., Whitney, H., & Strongman, J. A. (1999). "Moral hypocrisy: Appearing moral to oneself without being so." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(3), 525-537. Merritt, A. C., Effron, D. A., & Monin, B. (2010). "Moral self-licensing: When being good frees us to be bad." Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4(5), 344-357. LEMMiNO - Cipher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0q5PR1xpA0 CC BY-SA 4.0 LEMMiNO – Siberian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5py6E6yo7wk CC BY-SA 4.0 @amburdo6206 - Maris Walking LEMMiNO – Firecracker https://youtu.be/ulfoU2MziOc CC BY-SA 4.0 LEMMiNO – Nocturnal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epmoV2HRs9U CC BY-SA 4.0 @amburdo6206 - Colette Wave Cooking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkCjOhiHRa0 ------------------------------------------------------- Timecodes ------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - Bloodbending 01:25 - Bloodbending - Just OP Healing? 02:35 - In the Eye of the Beholder 04:57 - Why do we “not like” blood magic, necromancy and curses? 10:45 - Hama - An Evil Tragedy 16:20 - COULD Bloodbending be justified? 19:42 - Bloodbending - A Power like None Other 24:40 - Outro #avatarthelastairbender #avatar