After my talk with Twilight, we both decided to come up with proposals for a mutual defense treaty between Equestria and the US. She was going to meet with the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff next week anyways to discuss potential threats to Equestria by human weaponry, and potential security threats that Equestrian malcontents could pose should they arrive on Earth.
While none of the proposals would be binding until she finally get back in touch with Equestria, they were useful in any future negotiations.
Twilight, to my amusement, attempted to use a keyboard. She tried to type with her hooves, but she ended up breaking some of keys. She was eventually able to use her magic to properly type. Seeing the keys suddenly move up and down briefly made me think of some ghost movie I saw. And she was quite the typist, putting out 300 pages of proposals.
I was up late at night, looking over the proposals on my laptop, and checking for any grammatical errors and technical mistakes. My back was bent over as I typed on the table, my eyes heavy and red-rimmed, and my breath reeked off coffee. I was so focused in my work, I barely noticed that someone had entered the room.
"Jake," I briefly pulled my eyes away from laptop, and saw Mary standing near the door. She was wearing a pink robe, and looking at me with concerned eyes. "It's two in the morning. Come to bed."
"Can't. Busy," I said, turning back to the laptop.
"Do I need to knock you out to get you to go to bed," Mary asked with annoyance. Don't worry, our relationship wasn't built off of violence. It was a rhetorical question she would ask whenever I either worked late at night or tried to go to work while sick. This time, however, I ignored the question. She was clearly surprised by that . Because the next moment, came up behind me and wrapped her arms around my shoulders.
"Honey," she said in a soothing tone. "What's wrong? Are you still worried about how all this will affect our lives? Because I'm worried-"
"No," I said. Truth is, the anxiety I had about how my life had changed faded after my talk with Twilight. Compared to what I feared now, being upset about having extra security felt ridiculously petty.
"Then what is it," she asked, sitting down on the couch next to me, and putting a warm hand on my hand. "Does this have anything to do with you telling Twilight about Aunt Rachel or Franz?" My eyes watered at that. When I told their stories to Mary, she cried like a baby.
"Well, Twilight brought up how human beings...kill each other over the most stupid reasons," I said. "And after our talk, we studied the Columbian Exchange to study and prepare for a successful First Contact..." I paused, trying to collect my emotions.
"Honey," Mary's voice said in a soothing tone. "Tell me."
"I'm afraid that a human army might wipe out ponies ," I admitted in a broken tone. Mary put a warm shoulder on me.
"Honey, you shouldn't let-,"
"Why not," I said. "I mean, I told Twilight about how Jews survived almost anything, which meant ponies might be able to survive the same thing. But, Twilight told me that the number of ponies who live in Equestria is less then the entire population of New York State," I quietly barked. "Not only that, their army, as she described it, is basically medieval."
"Medieval," she asked.
"Their highest weapon tech is wagons, spears, cannons and crossbows," I said with some disdain.
"Her magic is pretty strong," Mary said in a reassuring tone. "Remember at the base, she lifted a whole tank into the air."
"Her magic power is very rare," I barked. "Most ponies can't do anything more then what their cutie marks allow."
"And she told us that her friends have this magic power that, when they come together, can defeat evil," Mary said, trying to reassure me.
"But can that beat back bombs and rifles," I asked rhetorically. I closed my laptop, and let my face fall in my hands. "These ponies have fought wars, but they're basically medieval skirmishes. If some human army invaded, and 'the Power of Harmony' were to fail, they would effectively be easy meat. "
"Honey, I doubt that could happen," Mary said. "Twilight is the only creature who could actually reach Equestria. She could easily lock us out if she wanted to."
"Yes, but let's say she does keep portal open," I said miserably. "And in the future, more permanent ones open." I clenched my fists. "A lot of horrible things could happen. They could strike oil in Equestria, and some CIA agent would then decide that Equestria needs some 'MURICAN FREEDOM!" I said. Mary let out a small chuckle. "Or some Taliban-style nutcase could try and blow up their princesses." Mary let out an annoyed sigh.
"You're not wrong Jake, those things are a possibility," she said reluctantly. "But why are those things your problem?" I narrowed my eyes.
"Because we're the ones who found her," I barked. She rolled her eyes at me.
"Oh God," she said with a laugh, "you are so egotistical."
"Egotistical," I said with annoyance.
"Yeah! You think you're the one who will controls the fate of ponies, just because you found her eating our flowers. Jake, in the grand scheme of things, we're just the two lucky idiots who struck gold. It will be the powers that be, both here and in Equestria, that have to dig it out of the ground."
"What does that mean," I asked, confused by her metaphor.
"It means that we're not responsible for what other humans or other governments do," she said. "If some terrorist tries to blow them up, it is the fault of a terrorist. Twilight told me how every few months, some evil creature tries to take over their land. Would you blame Twilight if some evil pony tried to take over our world," she said.
"No," I said, offended by the very idea. "But, I'm still scared." Mary gave me a serious look.
"I'm a little scared too," Mary said. "But again, if shit happens, we have to accept it and move on. Again, we are not responsible for what other human beings do." She then gave me a warm smile and put her hand on my shoulder. "And besides, when it comes to the meeting between species, I think we're already off to an OK start."
"Really," I asked.
"Generations from now, when they write about the story of Equestrian-Earth relations, that story will begin with a beautiful woman and her brave, handsome husband giving a poor creature food and shelter," she said, her voice become deeper and seductive. "And that same brave husband opening up to that creature about his dark family history, despite how hard it was to do." I felt myself relax a bit, and was soon mesmerized by Mary's newfound beauty. "I don't think that Twilight could've found a better representative of the human race." Her words filled me with some confidence.
"Your right," I said, rising from the couch. The fear of pony genocide still hung within me, but I wasn't putting it all on my shoulders. "Perhaps the lady would like to be escorted back to her throne," I said in what I hoped was a suave voice.
"Perhaps," she said in a contrary tone that very playful. "If you ask me politely." With that, we walked arm and arm to bed. But nevertheless, I still felt that, even though I might be little more than a spokesman, I still had a duty to ensure peaceful relations.
When I got to the teacher's lounge the next day, I looked through the trash can, and dumped all its contents out, to the confusion of everyone else, and began rifling through the letters I had thrown away.
"Hey," I looked up and saw Homer standing over me with an annoyed look. "What are you doing? Trying to take my job," he said without a hint of irony.
"No," I said, going through the trash.
"Hey Jake," Pauleen said. "If you're hungry, I have this half-eating bagel in my trash can."
"That's nice," I said, not caring to trade barbs with Pauleen. I finally found the letter, and ran out, ignoring the angered look Homer gave me over making a mess. I ran into the corner of an empty hallway, and pulled out my phone. I looked around, only to see Roger behind me.
"This is a private phone call," I said to the suited man. He simply turned his head away from me, but still stayed near me. I let out a sigh, knowing that was the most I could get him to do. I opened the letter, mumbling with disgust over the tomato stains and old lettuce still on it, and dialed the number in the letter on my phone.
"Hello," a female voice said on the other line. "This is the offices of Amnesty International. May I ask whose calling?"
"Hello," I said. "This is Jacob Klein. I'm calling about your offer..."
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This one argument absolutely ruins your validity. You really should pick up Christian Bible and read it, you'll be very surprised. Rape, genocide, slavery, it's all in there, lots of it.
Some suggestions to aid in equestrian defence against humanity
Perhaps the Us could give equestria a couple nukes, for self defence and deterrence.
Twilight could make the portal to equestria go to an isolated military base, guarded by a joint international human/equestrian guard and screening people for weapons, viruses, etc. Kind of like an Ellis island for equestria. Humans could then be portalled to equestria after they fo through this and vice versa.
Establish contingency plans for equestrian defence like you are already doing
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Let's not forget the other violent done in the name of Christianity:
The Crusades
The Spanish Inquisition (which nobody expected)
The Albigensian Crusade
Again, I am not anti-Christian, and any bias I've shown is accidental.
What I oppose is those who use faith to justify their own corruption and horrible behavior.
9771785
Well... in all seriousness, religion was created, at least partially, for the strong to control the weak and justify themselves while doing so. Faith by itself isn't inherently bad, but, well... We have history.
9771811
But again, people who use faith to justify their horrible actions are especially toxic, because their religious fervor ensures they can do them guilt free.
With everything going on in the comments, I feel inclined to bring up that given half a chance there are so many groups and governments who'd do everything Twilight and Jacob fear and more.
China has hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps right now, and they're doing that thing with the artifical islands, plus trying to exert even more control over Taiwan, Tibet, and Hong Kong.
(Inlcuding kidnapping a high ranking Buddhist monk in order to control the next Dalai Llama).
Plus you have countries like Saudi Arabia where they still decapitate people and have moral police. What's the world gonna do if they say they want the ponies gone or no more oil?
9771823
That is very true.
9771869
Wtf? It is more Twilight, than Rarity.
9771826
Then Saudi Arabia would tiny bit of a problem selling oil. It's one thing for a country to get away with things on their home turf, it's another thing entirely to demand the genocide of a people in another nation. And they know this, which is why their more extreme politicians may talk about 'death to the infidels' on national television, they never actually make such demands to their customers.
Besides, "don't bite the hand that feeds." Ponies aren't just an exotic thing to hate, they're a potential business in and of themselves. Weather control and agriculture that allows for permanent harvests throughout spring and summer is enough of a boon that many nations will jump in front of Equestria to protect their potential investments. And that's before we get into the even more esoteric possibilities of magic.
But ultimately, a pony genocide will fail for the same reason the Nazi's attempt at Jewish genocide failed: for every person that is consumed by their hate, another will save lives through compassion. Some will risk their lives to smuggle hundreds of children to safety, others by hiding them in secret rooms or even whisking them away to safety en-masse.
Some of the wording here is a little weird.
Ex:
*"I am (or I'm) afraid that a human army might attempt to wipe out the ponies..."
And some questions doesn't end with a "?" (unless you should do that).
I wonder if that would actually be possible.
Suppose Twilight can open a return portal, does so, returns to Equestria, and then closes it.
What's to stop humans from eventually reaching a point where they can replicate that process technologically?
If Twilight could open a portal back to Equestria, opening a portal from this universe to Equestria is something that the laws of the universe will do under specific circumstances.
At that point all that needs to be done is replicate the circumstances Twilight caused, which opened the portal.
And I am fairly sure if humans wanted to go to Equestria after Twilight returned there, they would eventually figure out how, if they don't go extinct first.
Because if humans have any form of magic at all, it's the ability to exploit natural processes for their own gain, effectively making the universe do some work for them.
Suppose Twilight doesn't merely close the portal after returning, but also creates some sort of spell or artifact the will forcefully close any new portals opened to Equestria.
At this point it's merely a question of throwing enough raw power at the problem until the spell or artifact can no longer keep up and close the portal(s).
And if there's one thing technology allows, it's enabling the use of exceeding amounts of brute force.
It's not an elegant approach, but it works.
The same applies in reverse too, although magic doesn't lend itself to the excessive brute force approach as easily as technology.
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Theoretically? Nothing. In practice? That's where a lot of pitfalls open up.
First, we need to figure out how Twilight did it. That means all the scanners pointing at Twilight as she is doing it, trying to capture as much data as you can so that we have the least amount of blanks to fill.
Then we have to fill those blanks that remain. Magic being an entirely different form of energy, there is no guarantee we even have anything that can replicate these effects. In which case you have to create one. Creating something similar out of nothing when you don't even have access to the original takes nothing short of a miracle to stumble across.
So, one miracle already. But lets say we manage. We created technomagic. Woohoo! Progress! Now we just have to copy what Twilight did. Which... is kinda hard, because there was a lot more going on that just what our scanners picked up. We got by one problem, but now there's a whole new problem with blanks to fill. This is going to take a lot of time and money to experiment. Simulations and tests will take years, if not decades, if we even manage at all. Honestly, kind of another miracle.
But hey, miracles right? It's limited, as it can only copy what we saw Twilight do, but we managed. We can open a portal. This brings us to the third problem: where does the portal go?
See, we may have copied what Twilight roughly did, but just because we build wings and learned how to flap them good enough to fly doesn't mean we know how to navigate the sky. A universe is mind-bogglingly big. So big that we haven't even remotely started exploring it. A multiverse is a universe of universes. Twilight knew how to navigate it, but it's not as if she left behind a convenient trail of hoofprints to follow. So now we have to find Equestria first... and we have no way of doing that.
This would take our third and, really, fourth miracle. Because even even if we do somehow figure out how to navigate the universe, we don't know what to look for. Twilight knew what to look for when she scanned the multiverse for Equestria. We don't. And there's a lot of multiverse out there to scan.
And all this assumes that the project will receive all the fundings forever and never go wrong. Should it lose the public and, by extension, politic's eye... well, ask NASA how easy it is to run a space program with barely any funding.
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And there is a lot of contradictions if you actually read the Bible in an critical eye.
I’m just going to let this video prove my point:
Meanwhile there are plenty of stories both from a millennial ago to modern times where people attacking each other due to one believe it is for the greater good.
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Correct, achieving any of those within one human lifetime would be a miracle.
But the timescales concerned here can be millions, if not billions or even trillions of years. From the point she left until humanity goes extinct.
And as for producing magic, by the fact that Twilight can do it, we can infer that magic can be created as a product of a biological process in her body. Since biological systems exchange matter with their environment, this means whatever matter is involved in that process would eventually be replaced with other matter her body acquired in the form of air, water or food, and the old matter will be expelled, potentially after some processing, as air or waste.
Option 1: Magic production requires some special matter that doesn't exist on earth.
This would mean the longer Twilight stays here the weaker her magic should become, while at the same time leaving some of this magical matter behind on earth. Even if only in trace amounts.
Option 2: Magic production is possible only using matter present in earth's biosphere.
This would mean it's only a matter of time until it happens, either in nature, or in some lab, on accident or on purpose. It might take thousands or millions of years, but if humanity doesn't go extinct before, it will be able to make use of that.
Option 1.2: Magic production requires some special matter that doesn't exist on earth, but with magic it is possible to turn matter on earth into this magic matter. However, outside of the special environment in Twilight that contains the magic matter, it quickly decays into ordinary matter.
This variant of option 1 would indeed be able to lock humans out of magic permanently once Twilight leaves. However that just opens the question of how ponies were able to get that magic matter in the first place. Even if the laws of the universes were different, they have to be very similar to allow Twilight to continue to live "as normal" on earth.
Some way of spontaniously generating that magic matter has to exist somewhere, otherwise it could not have come into being in the first place. Even if the magic matter will decay shortly after in almost all circumstances.
Supposing technomagic is invented at some point, figuring out how to make some magic portal should also only be a matter of time.
But pointing the other end of that portal into Equestria is indeed almost impossible. The odds of shooting a portal randomly into Equestria approach 0. If there is an infinite number of universes the portals can go to, the odds of landing in Equestria by chance are 0.
But opened portals have to go somewhere, and one can try to aim the portal to a specific world using the ones one has hit randomly before.
So eventually, it should be possible to aim for "Equestria-like" world. Not necessarily Equestria, but close enough for technomagical portals to not be able to tell the difference.
And at the point you can't tell the difference between two things no matter what you do, you might as well treat them as if they were the same thing.
9771008
No, the Enlightenment is what helped boost the world out of those things. A movement that was a reaction to the sheer horror of what comes from a religious war, ie, the 30 years war.
9772143
I know that, yeah. I had to delve into religion for the purpose of writing a story, and oh boy... It changed my perception of it forever.
9772158
Well, for all practical purpose that's definitely not Twilight's problem anymore. Or Equis' as it currently is. And, the original concept of her being the sole link remains valid. Even if it's inhabitants are naturally long-lived, this kind of timescale ensures that the second meeting, attained this way, will be between two very different cultures. Might as well consider it an entirely fresh start.
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9771785
This is trouble with ideas, religions and ideologies. They can be greatest, most peaceful and everloving on foundation, but always some bastard will find a way to corrupt their message for his own greedy,egoistical use. For bastards nothing is saint, so they will use everything that could help them. Christianity in medieval Europe was used by bastards, because it was common among masses, so corrupting this has greater effects on controling said masses to their whims. Same go with communism, which in theory is supposed to bring equality among people and yet was and is used by powerhungry tyrants as explanation of their tyranny, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" in France, where revolutionists were opressing and murdering opposition and each other "for this", Aztecs attacking other tribes, wellbeing of Senate and Romans used for justifing civil wars etc.. And don't forget about fanatics, they will make EVERY POSSIBLE idea hateful. Unfortunaly, that come from inherent traits of human mind and all we can do is to avoid this by themselves and try to help others with this.
Edit: To put my opinion simply, not ideas are guilty of these all crimes and monstrosities, as most of them are oppossed to them, but simple human greed, cruelty and disregard of others.
But we, humanity need these ideas, that possess good teaching as basis, because otherwise we may find or develop ones with evil basis.
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9771988
Well...there are several challenges that Saudi Arabia would face in trying to exert even a small bit of influence in Equestria.
1) Oil
Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and funding of religious terror are tolerate for one reason: oil.
The world needs oil to do everything, from plastics to cars. They have so much oil, they can manipulate energy output.
Equestria, however, seems to be a society caught in the middle of the industrial revolution. They have no need for oil, thus Saudi Arabia can't influence Equestria.
2) Islam
Saudi Arabia can only really exert influence in places where Islam has been spread.
There is, obviously, no Islamic presence in Equestria.
It is possible that the Saudi might open a mosque or two in Equestria, but its doubtful their extremist Islam would have any reception in Equestria.
3) The desire for magic.
As stated, magic provides whole new opportunities for the world. Despite the House of Al-Saud proclaiming old-school Islam, they are a cabal of shiftless politicians. And they would love to use magic for their own ends. Despite their medieval attitude toward governing, they would like a taste of the magic pie too, even if one cleric denounces the ponies as "Satanic".
9772020
Made that correction, thank you.
9772040
As far as we now, human beings have not come close to replicating anything related to that kind of tech.
I doubt that, merely by looking at Twilight and observing her magical powers, that humans could replicate her magic in any reasonable time frame.
9772210
In other words, there is always going to be awful people who corrupt a message to their own ends, no matter how nice that message is?
“With great flowers comes great responsibility.”
I've considered that it will be a done deal that humanity will wipe out the ponies. Reasons humans will find to excuse their violence against the ponies, could be as simple that they get blamed for all of humanities problems or seen simple as spawns of Satan to inspire large groups of people (settlers that will rush in to settle the new land) or a nation or two to attack the ponies
When it starts, other human nations will issue formal letter of protest in the UN council, or activist will organize protest on the embassies of those nation participating in the attack on the ponies. There will be white helmets UN forces sent to equestrian to monitor pony massacres that will occur, or erect "safe zones" for ponies to flee for protection, where eventually an errant bomb or two will "accidentally" strike & killing scores of ponies. Any real action to protect the ponies will not materialize, after all... you don't start a war with other humans to save animals. After all, nations have not lifted a finger against other nations committing acts of genocide events in our modern time. If we do nothing for our fellow human, why bother saving animals.
But the ponies will not be wiped out, there will be pony survivors... but will experience enough losses to their numbers that their population will suffer a drastic genetic bottleneck. A serious decrease of the variation in their population's gene pool, leading to their eventual extinction.
And when the last pony dies, due to health problems stemming from inbreeding. Probably in a span of 50 years, humans will feel remorse & erecting commemoration & monuments by apologetic human feeling genuine sorrow for wiping out the ponies & most likely the other sapient races populating Equus. Government leaders issuing official apologies to the no longer existing ponies. All that chest beating while enjoying the newly acquired planet with its resources & new pristine land for the ever-growing human population to settle.
And there will be wanna-be Josh Gates & Expeditions Unknown like shows called Finding Ponies. Searching for ponies by probing in the dark of night around abandoned pony settlements & cities, with their EVP recording devices & infrared camcorders, & claiming any amorphous blob or sound is a pony of some surviving population.
I am pessimistic about the human race & I expect to get a load of thumbs down. I'm not sure it some phase, could be because how human reaction to the growing problem of Earth’s environment & the possibility we are initiating an extinction event. How we watched with fascination & horror when a group of zealots (ISIS), slaughtered ancient cultures & people, & wreck precious ancient cultural relics & we did nothing. Or how India growing nationalism called Hindutva (probably a phase just like we got Trump), China & their growing concentration camps of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, etc.
Anyways... be nice. Remember, it’s just an opinion with a bit off cynicism due to my pessimism.
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My opinion is most other countries will do help the ponies is file letter of protest in the UN, activist protesting in front of the embassies of said countries committing atrocities in Equus & its populations, economic sanctions... Doubt the US will go to blows with China to protect the ponies, probably inefficient military assistance & some volunteers which will do nothing to prevent the whole-sale-slaughter.
And about a decade or two, monuments will be erected in apology to the now extinct Equestrians. Or to the few surviving ones, their continued existence now in question & their history & culture completely obliterated.
Those poor colorful little bastard wont stand a chance. There are evil creatures in Equestria, they are but naive putz compared to humans.
I'm gonna get thumbs down to death here.😰
Well, terrorists and covert operations are another matter, but I think overt actions can be stopped with some deft political maneuvering (read: Hey, humans! Look at all these jerks trying to attack us cute and peaceful ponies! Please protect us!). Bureaucracy might be slow, but the UN surely won't allow such blatant violations of sovereignty.
But yeah, no ideas right now for the former threats except for regular policing and strict background checks...
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Bear in mind that this event would surely rile up religious groups. While most religious groups in the west were forcefully declawed, the middle east would have a field day blowing them up after declaring a jihad on the demonic ponies of Baal.
As long as the ponies control the portals, then they should be relatively safe. I'm sure that anyone malicious and determined enough would be able to make a go at it, but it looks like it takes quite a bit of effort to open and maintain portals.
A whole super CIA-Terrorist-Al-Qaeda-KGB spy team might Solid Snake their way in, but the moment the portals are shut they have no backup, no supplies, and no escape. If their aim is to cause damage, well it would possibly be pretty bad, but in the aftermath big C could justifiably say "we don't want any more humans crossing, thanks" or just shut it down entirely. It'll be bad, it'll make a lot of people and ponies sad, but Equestria would be pretty safe, I think.
As for yet another debate over whether religion is good or evil, I agree with the idea that any big enough asshole is going to twist whatever they want to their own ends. And the biggest things that have sway over people are politics and religion. Whether they should or shouldn't be swayed by such things... Is it human nature to tightly hold onto what beliefs you have?
9773612
So, religious terrorists?
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Yeah, I found Starlight's reasoning for all the things she did to be completely ridiculous.
However, Starlight did something I never saw in almost any other kids fantasy show: create an in-universe ideology, and implement a form of totalitarianism. While I like Starlight as a character, it would've been interesting to see her try and actually wage war toward this goal.
Maybe she could be proof that ponies could potentially create pseudo-utopian figures who create utterly warped societies. But, since we don't see too much of it, Twilight has focused mainly on the evil villains who want conquest.
9773612
Uh...
I wouldn't say religious groups were declawed. Merely, they have more sophisticated tools. In the Middle Ages, you'd face torture if you rejected the idea of God creating the world. Today, religious lobbyists can force creationism into public schools.
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Again, that's why Jake has to level with Twilight. She is the only way the US and other nations have of getting a slice of the magic pie.
The Changelings could very be an example of that in Equestria. But Twilight's concern is the amount of damage human beings can inflict with things like bombs and stuff.
Again, to me the problem is not faith. It is those who wear it on their sleeves to justify horrible behavior that cause problems.
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And the saddest part is that I liked Starlight before that moment, now I can't tolerate her existence.
9774178
>Comparing ideology-based torture to political lobbyists pushing ideas into the education system — and acting like they are equivalent
Well, admittedly it's a bit different situation (and differences could be elaborated upon), but I feel a bit weird seeing "why it's your problem?" argument being used just after long detailed examples of what large scale application of "why it's your problem?" argument could end up with.
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No. I'm saying those lobbyists, if they lived in the 17th century, would be the kind of people who would burn someone at the stake. In the modern day, that kind of thing is considered...murder. So using fake populism to portray your actions as a majority is what a lot of fundamentalists do, in place of the good ol' witch trials.
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I am bit annoyed that her character went from "fascinating ideologue" to "vengeful time-traveler," and then "trusted friend."
9777276
Just means some ponies are versatile :P
The question you should be asking is Are the ponies evil? If you have to look at it the ponies are not that far removed from humanity. You can compare Equestria to the colonial powerhouse of the human counties in the 1800s.
Based on the country Sparkles end up on she could consider herself very lucky. The defensive attitude of the main character towards religion feels extremely forced considering the fact that the people in that country worship guns as opposed to the worship of a bearded old guy in the sky.
Anyone with a brain would have recognized that the freedom of religion is a norm for the vast majority of the human countries and nobody really cares about which God is your favorite.
The major dislike about this story for me is that the character focuses on WW2. Which is for me is a strange thing to focus on when there are a lot more modern social issues that are there to focus on other than the ancient war where the main character has a personal issue with it because he is a jew.
10321993
Dude, There are still people who survived the Holocaust who are alive today! The focus on WW2 was in regards to Twilight learning about Hitler
the fate of humanity and ponies directly depends on this. this is everyone's problem
could have prevented it, but didn't. the responsibility lies with you.
lol, he really stupid
9771811
No, she's bad on her own too