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Amon's shtick is that bending leads to pain and suffering. Benders can't help but cause chaos as a result of abilities they do not understand, and so he appeals to more to the history of bending crimes and destruction, which often have nonbenders helplessly on the receiving end. Either benders are in control and waging wars on each other that get nonbenders in the crossfire or they are working to use their abilities to undermine, intimidate and extort legitimate nonbender businessman, regular citizens and leaders, which we a lot of instances of in both series.
Really all Amon has to do is stand in front of a crowd of nonbenders and say "Okay, how many of you here have been or know somebody's who's been harmed unjustly by a bender." Chances are a lot of people are going to raise their hands. At that point Amon goes into a huge lecture on war crimes and oppression perpetrated by benders during the hundred year war, the everyday list of crimes in the newspaper that feature bending criminals and boom. He instantly has fed the people with this idea that bending is causing more destruction than good that even benders can't properly regulate and control themselves.
Next, he preaches the religious element of his movement, a way of explaining why bending, if it is causing all this pain, is an everyday reality of the world nonbenders live in and why has something not been done about it before if it is so bad. Amon's explanation is that bending is the result of an inherent "impurity" in human nature. It is man mimicking and disobeying the heavenly mandates of the spirits that watch over the world. Amon pumps the idea into his people that bending is some kind of unholy witchcraft, a power inherently flawed in its nature due to the inferiority of human nature. It is a sign of man's disobedience and a cheap imitation of the holy works of his heavenly and spiritual superiors. And instead helping bring balance and harmony to the world, it has only divided human beings along bending lines, which just prevents them from understanding the true harmony that exists between the elements because they are too caught up in the virtues of a single element. Why? Because that's what their race happens to bend. In the end, bending doesn't encourage balance, it just encourages human beings to try to do outdo and subdue the other elements which contributes to the lack of balance between them in the world. Nonbenders, however, do not discriminate between any element and enjoy the fruits each element has to offer equally with no particular bias. They dwell in humility to the spirits of each element, reserving direct psychic manipulation of each of them only to those with the authority and right, who are above human nature, and they produce only that which is an amalgamation of each element, thus personifying most perfectly the harmony that exists between the elemental spirits. Meanwhile, the benders are so obsessed with looking unique and special that they obsess over only the element which they so happen to bend and expect nonbenders to narrow their minds as much as them because they happen to share a blood relation. Benders see themselves as gods, nonbenders understand they are servants of higher powers. Benders compete for one element to dominate the other, nonbenders enjoy all elements equally and seek not the oppression of water by fire or vice versa. Benders divide humanity into classes based on elemental affiliation, nonbenders are all the same and have no need for such things. Benders like bending because its a simple and easy means of getting what they want, nonbenders understand the dignity of hard work that goes into the creation and use of the elements. The Avatar came into the world because it thought it could regulate power between benders, but like all benders, it was blind to the true harmony that existed between the elements and only became a part of the problem, although the spirits made use of it as a tool from time to time to curtail the destruction wrought by the benders. By anointing Amon with the power to rid the world of bending, a new era in which human beings may achieve a greater peace and understanding of the elements can begin and through it all they may achieve a higher spiritual enlightenment and station alongside the elemental spirits and even beyond them.
tl;dr-- There are some real reasons why nonbenders might begin to think bending is something bad or unnecessary for humans. Most of them are probably religious and reactions to most recent historical events where benders nearly destroyed the world. And some could argue that nonbenders don't tend to disrupt the balance between the elements while benders do.
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