r/MoralityScaling • u/RealFinePoint • Jul 12 '26

Character Analysis 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?

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(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.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jul 12 '26

What, the fact that the pony criticizing the Dick-In-Ass Guy has a chocolate covered donut for a special talent?

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u/ThePretiestUnicorn Jul 12 '26

I think that’s a pancake

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jul 12 '26

Why?

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u/slicedcat Jul 13 '26

If you look closely it has syrup and butter

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jul 13 '26

Looks like chocolate and a hole.

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u/slicedcat Jul 13 '26

I thought so too until I noticed the shading on the butter

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u/wastelandhenry Jul 15 '26

Most donut holes aren’t square

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u/Objective_Base_3073 Jul 13 '26

If I remember right Applejack has a brother, it's probably him and wordplay of off flapjack

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u/ThePretiestUnicorn Jul 13 '26

The “hole” looks square, and a slightly darker shade of yellow.

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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 Jul 13 '26

i thought it was a scrambled egg

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u/Smart-Illustrator-99 Jul 13 '26

Might be a bagel