A Treatise on HiE Fictional Works and Common Logical Fallacies · 12:22am Mar 8th, 2012
~A Treatise on HiE Fictional Works and Common Logical Fallacies~
So I was originally going to slowly feed these into Any World, but since I cancelled that I decided I should write them up and give it an oldy-sounding name because because. Without further ado, here are the fallacies as I see them.
1. Humans evolved in the absence of magic, therefore are resistant to magic.
Seriously? This is about as dumb as I see myths come. So if we evolve in the absence of a vacuum as in outer space, we're resistant to it? Our bodies EXPLODE from internal pressure! If you bring a polar bear, which evolved in the absence of heat, to the sun, it will MELT! It won't stand up, brush it off and go 'meh.' That is patently ridiculous. I understand the potential for story here, but it's more likely that magic would be POISONOUS to humans than humans be resistant to it. Speaking of which, that was the toxin for Green. Bonus points for anyone who got that.
2. We evolved in different universes, so we should speak different languages.
So this one is pretty grand too. Assuming you subscribe to a multiversal theory (take your pick), which you likely DO, at least for the purposes of the story, if you're writing a story combining two universes, there are an infinite number of universes. There is an entire universe (assuming infinite universes) of MLP where Twilight's hilight is just one shade lighter, as well as one for where it's one shade darker. As such, it is entirely safe to assume that there is at least one universe where they speak similar languages. Likewise, if you subscribe to a god creating the multiverse instead, is it so unreasonable to assume that it got tired of making entire languages repeatedly, and, since multiversal travel was likely never intended, just reused a language?
3. Ponies are weak and need protection.
Okay this is also patently ridiculous, but since that's being overused I'm going to say 'what the bleep were you thinking when you thought of this.' Ponies are diminutive horses, right? Well horses carried around FULLY ARMORED KNIGHTS at high speeds for long times. They're pretty damn strong. They're also quadrupeds, and can use different and sometimes more effective combinations of muscles than we can, enabling the ability to carry large loads. Even Twilight, the bookworm of the show, could carry around a fully grown diamond dog (which I think, if memory serves correctly, was about her size) with ease at high speeds AND buck it off. I'd say that any species where a weak specimen could throw off another creature the size of it and gripping on for dear life with ease is pretty damn strong. At least more strong than us, where some people are too lazy to walk 5 feet to get water or Cheetos or something.
That's about all I can think of. I'll post an Edition 2 if I think of anything else. While 3 isn't necessarily related to HiE fiction, almost all HiE fictions involve the human defending a pony. Sometimes for genuinely valid reasons, however, but not always.
Thank you for outlining these so that we might better avoid them!