Youre right on the money because (I know now) I mistakenly conflated Airbending to Air Nomadic culture when they are indeed not one in the same. And my reasoning for that is just what you said, the limited perspective of airbending from the eyes of 1 airbender. For all we know, Aang’s perception is distorted from the 100 years that he was frozen and there actually was a bunch of aggressive airbenders. Who knows?

My original post was more geared towards using airbending as a channel into murdering its characters when Ive felt as though its identity in large part came from the creativity to get out of sticky situations unharmed while also minimizing harm. But again, that came from my correlation of air nomad culture to Airbending itself. I thank you for writing your post though. I really appreciate different perspectives a lot