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wtf?
People eating different people?
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's a bad direction to go. I mean traditional cartoons like Tom and Jerry exists on the very foundation of an animal character trying to eat another animal character even if they both talk and are humanized, but that doesn't quite seem like the template I'd expect from this show. Ponies and dragons seem to have a mixed relation with each other, but there still appears to be some kind of deeper level of diplomacy between the different races of Equestria that is hinted at. If you wanted to get into the politics of this fantasy world, I think it would be very disturbing for there to be some kind of implied agreement that everyone herd-race must present a portion of themselves to be eaten by the predator races. Maybe it would be an interesting idea for a dark dystopian fanfiction or a completely different universe altogether, but not something I expect from MLP at all. Even Zootopia got a little confusing with the way their society functions because they didn't want to get too deep into it.
As for "teaching kids that they don't have to be friends with everyone", that's stupid. The show already accomplished that with characters like Gylda from way back in season one. And it wasn't because she eats meat - in fact we only see her actually eat fruit. It's because she was a bully towards Rainbow's new friends and was too possessive. In other words, the personality of the character. If the show did what you're suggesting, it would feel more like a statement on race, with a weird racist implication.
Going back even further, there's a reason The Lion King never really gave us too deep of a look into how their world worked. We all just took it for granted that all the animals lived in peace and order, but actually if you really want to pick it apart, it's as if all the zebra, elk and other prey animals are basically slaves to the Lions who live in fear of being eaten by the top predator every day, yet they dare not defy this master race beyond simply running for their life when need be. That's...horrifying, and it makes it a lot harder to relate any of the lion characters as good guys, so the movie conveniently showed as little of the inner workings of this strange order as possible and left it more vague, as a kind of "natural order" despite the weird scene where all the animals bowed to Simba-jesus.
bow before me owo
wtf?
People eating different people?
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's a bad direction to go. I mean traditional cartoons like Tom and Jerry exists on the very foundation of an animal character trying to eat another animal character even if they both talk and are humanized, but that doesn't quite seem like the template I'd expect from this show. Ponies and dragons seem to have a mixed relation with each other, but there still appears to be some kind of deeper level of diplomacy between the different races of Equestria that is hinted at. If you wanted to get into the politics of this fantasy world, I think it would be very disturbing for there to be some kind of implied agreement that everyone herd-race must present a portion of themselves to be eaten by the predator races. Maybe it would be an interesting idea for a dark dystopian fanfiction or a completely different universe altogether, but not something I expect from MLP at all. Even Zootopia got a little confusing with the way their society functions because they didn't want to get too deep into it.
As for "teaching kids that they don't have to be friends with everyone", that's stupid. The show already accomplished that with characters like Gylda from way back in season one. And it wasn't because she eats meat - in fact we only see her actually eat fruit. It's because she was a bully towards Rainbow's new friends and was too possessive. In other words, the personality of the character. If the show did what you're suggesting, it would feel more like a statement on race, with a weird racist implication.
Going back even further, there's a reason The Lion King never really gave us too deep of a look into how their world worked. We all just took it for granted that all the animals lived in peace and order, but actually if you really want to pick it apart, it's as if all the zebra, elk and other prey animals are basically slaves to the Lions who live in fear of being eaten by the top predator every day, yet they dare not defy this master race beyond simply running for their life when need be. That's...horrifying, and it makes it a lot harder to relate any of the lion characters as good guys, so the movie conveniently showed as little of the inner workings of this strange order as possible and left it more vague, as a kind of "natural order" despite the weird scene where all the animals bowed to Simba-jesus.