The message I got from this movie was NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO STEAL FROM SOMEONE ELSE.
I believe that is in the Bible.
You think the film can be justified by finding one of the commandments in it? (BTW, you need not believe it is there; It actually is)
You say it is wrong to insist the movie has any relationship to reality, and in the very next sentence you connect the movie with reality...
I had discussed this movie with my sons when it came out. Last week one of them came home from high school to inform me of a classmate who claimed that Avatar was just like America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If one needs lessons in the power of propaganda visit the Holocaust museum. One can see the films and books that portray the "evil Jews" and extol the virtues of the Reich. The journey starts on the top floor; it shows a world not all that different than ours. The trip is a downward spiral. Floor by floor one goes from that world all the way down to the very bottom. One can see the human inflicted misery that included mass murders, gas filled showers, ovens and horrific experiments.
I don’t know what direction the next such attack on humanity will come from. Do you? I would prefer such brainwashing be left in museums rather than being alive and well and received as "no big deal" by those who are too ignorant to see and resist.
If America was rational and educated it probably wouldn’t be a big deal. But then cap and trade, socialized health care, and Obama would not be big deals either, would they?
Hey, it's just a children’s book. What's the problem? You are reading things into it...
Page from the anti-Semitic German children's book, 'Der Giftpilz' ( The Poisonous Toadstool). The text reads, " 'He who fights against Jews, wrestles with the devil.' Julius Streicher." The advertisement in the illustration reads, "Julius Streicher speaks in the Volkshalle about The Jews are our misfortune." 1935