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With that said, Amon had to have been based on V. No way around it. Amon is a lot like V, you can see them as a villain for causing so much unrest and yet you can see where they are coming from. In the original graphic novel on which the movie V for Vendetta is based, the character of V is written to where you can draw your own conclusions about whether he was a hero, a villain, or something in between. He was fighting against a government that was essentially an extension of the Third Reich and yet his methods meant innocent people suffered along with the guilty.

Amon simply wants everyone to be treated equally, that's the only thing he wants. His methods of making bending a shameful thing is wrong though considering that it's taking away a part of that person just as much as making someone blind or deaf would be. Sure they can still live and carry on with their lives, but there's that overwhelming sense of missing something.

2898988 There's also the fact that Amon was willing to resort to extreme measures to get what he wanted. Including terrorism. If he truly was interested in trying to earn equality it is not likely he would've done such public acts, as doing such a thing only further fueled the opposition to him. By the time of the Season 1 finale, and prior to the reveal, it is obvious that he has crossed the "Moral Event Horizon" by being willing to take away the bending of the only surviving air benders, including a mother and soon to be born infant.

2899030 Amon set himself up as a larger than life figure. Larger than life figures always have the following effects, they draw people to them. He fed everyone propaganda and essentially exacerbated any feelings non-benders had to the point they bought what he was selling.

I have no doubt that Amon had entirely good goals to begin with and maybe even a line he wasn't willing to cross. Like notice the first person who's bending he took, a criminal. He took the bending of someone who did not deserve that kind of power. He perhaps thought he could simply scare other benders into submission, but soon he found himself crossing more and more lines when that didn't happen and possibly began have the idea that no bender has the right to such power. If this was the case it really applies to the quote

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

That is Amon's story right there. He may have started as a hero and done good things, providing training for non-benders to protect themselves against benders and thus even the playing field. However, the moment he started gearing up for a fullscale war and began what was essentially a Nazi takeover of Republic City he crossed the line