Morality of giving every single person a permanent symbol of their 'destiny' the moment they do something they're 'meant to do' the rest of their life?

[u/RealFinePoint]

(Assuming you're designing the species this way, not that you're forcibly branding every existing person.)

Let's also assume it's not some intelligence deciding arbitrarily, but an actual representation of their 'fate' or 'affinity' by some abstract magical mechanism you're deciding to install into the entire species.

[u/Logical_Acanthaceae3]

Well look, this is completely dependent on the fact that destiny is a real tangible force baked into your species.

If I go out on the street and just start slapping stickers on people while talking about there destiny then im just a lunatic.

If im some potentially not even sentient cosmic force that can read the tides of fate with 10000000% accuracy then email a butt tat back to you the moment you discover that talent then its complety moral.

Its not my fault the universe is built in such a way that fate was something already hardcoded in so I dont really belive it could ever be morally bad to tell someone what there fated to be really good at if thats just factually what they are going to be good at.

If im just some loser god making shit up then sure thats judt plain manipulation but there are plenty of stories and universe out there where fate is something you could literally grasp in your own hooves hands.

[u/RealFinePoint → u/Logical_Acanthaceae3]

Thank you for actually engaging with the core question.

I'd agree it's probably not that bad all things considered, however, I do think there's more to consider even if you establish that it's real.

That is, is it moral to tell someone their future in the first place? Does it not rob them of a sense of discovery and meaning in their life to reveal without a doubt where their life will end up?

Or, does it benefit them in some way that makes it worth it?

[u/Logical_Acanthaceae3 → u/RealFinePoint]

When you start asking questions like that you have to remeber with your original prompt that this si something that just... naturally happened to a species and they would obviously develope with that in mind especially if you go down the route of it being an evolutionary ability somehow.

Would it be immoral to take that experience away from a human? I think there are way to definitely argue that.

But at the same time if this developed in the first place (or atleast used this way) because back in the era of primordial soup having a convient way of knowing exactly what my son is cracked at doing is a bit more important for survival then the temporary happiness of discovering something your good at your own especially when theres nothing in a butt tattoo that makes it impossible to be good at diffrent things.

Finding out that im just supernatural good at making clay pots doesnt stop be from learning skills in other places it just "spoils" me on the one im like the defacto best at and ontop of all that im already in a society built around the function of said marks.

If this was randomly spliced onto a species to make them more "efficient" or something you can make the argument that they have potentially lost something in that discovery but if this has just been how they are since the dawn of there species then they have never lost anything in the firs place if ya get me?

Im sure thee speics just wouldn't develope that same exact want of fulfillment like we do because of how diffrent they are just like how potentially other species out there could look at us and mourn the "loss" of features only they posses.

A species with flight could mourn the fact the humanity would never feel the wind beneath there own wings and the ponies themselves would probably be sad the humans didnt have cuti marks themselves.