Why the Avatars should not have been made

[Human No More]

I almost thought this thread was a troll.

If you think sampling DNA kills a creature, then you honestly have no understanding of how it works (and for that matter, it was never said that the avatars used a specific Na'vi individual's DNA, it could be sequenced from a mapping of their genome in order to make it more likely to be a match).
Indeed, it seems very unlikely that a use of specific individual's genetic code is the case, since avatars have to be carefully created to be compatible with their user then creating a genetic profile from a map of the Na'vi genome would be far more likely to allow compatibility with the human.


Secondly, I don't think the Na'vi share human concepts (and indeed, how do you apply an abstract concept to a living organism?) - Eywa didn't do anything specific with the Na'vi, they just coexist with her. Applying human mythological concepts to a biological organism doesn't work.

Again, nobody ever said that anything was done to make the avatars dormant - indeed, the nervous system modifications mean they would likely have never been viable as an autonomous lifeform. A lobotomy would not would not actually produce an effect like that. It is perfectly possible to engineer an organism to have no higher functions but a functioning autonomic system, this would likely be an effect of matching the nervous system to the human operator's too.

What REALLY pisses me off is people calling the Na'vi stupid. I'm sure they know what avatars are and the basics of the process much like they know the basics of the neural network. Making ridiculous assumptions with no base like this is pointless - Jake IS a Na'vi now, the Na'vi are not like the humans at all. Sure, some humans might, but there are differences in how the two think. Jake didn't kill anyone, neither did he replace anyone (I would have wondered if you had even watched the film if you were new at this point).