@Background Pony #3A64  
Not every argument, just arguments like these.

@Yoga is boring  
Yeah, yeah, every argument on the internet is pointless. That is just a copout in this context.

@Background Pony #3A64  
Bricks. You’re full of.

@GekkanShounen  
Denial. You got it bad.

@lunafan22  
Successful troll is successful.

Imaginary cartoon horses and imaginary cartoon dragon. This debate is, at the end of the day, pointless. No one can truly answer this problem except for the writers, which I highly doubt they will do. All of this ‘they will’ or ‘they won’t for whatever reason’ is pure speculation. If you like Sparity (as I do) it is your own opinion. If you dislike sparity this is your opinion. Neither is better or worse than the other and each side is entitled to their beliefs. Accept it, move on and don’t waste your time debating the morality of shipping two fictional mythical creatures from a television show.

@Background Pony #3A64  
Not arguing with the dictionary, since you know, it’s not.

@GekkanShounen  
It is hard to argue against the dictionary definition of a word.

@Blondie  
You never know. That, of course, is assuming the age gap is as big as you assume it is.

@Background Pony #3A64  
>this particular song and dance  
I can explain all I want but I’ve found kicking brick walls are no fun.

@GekkanShounen  
>Pedophilia. It’s not.
 
AdultXkid. There is just no way around that. Denial does not change what is an obvious and well-supported fact. We have even heard the show’s creators explain this point. I have nothing against pedophilia, particularly in fiction, but call it what it is. If you want to ship Applebloom and Shining Armor, that’s cool, but it is a pedo ship.

@bico-kun  
>Spike is of age but has a tiny body.
 
We know what teenage dragons look like. Unless Spike is the Gary Coleman of dragons, he is no teenager, not to mention the fact that we saw Spike get born when Twilight was Applebloom’s age. Unless Twilight was in her School for Gifted Unicorns for seventeen years, Spike is nowhere near adulthood.
 
>Rarity (and the other Mane6) are actually older teenagers
 
Rarity has her own private home, personally runs a professional business, and is a nationally recognized designer. Equestria Girls Universe aside, she is no teenager. And even if the six were teenagers, that would make Spike about five years old, which would make sense for a “baby dragon.”
 
>they will get together in the future.
 
Sure, you can get away with doing that without the pedophilia angle coming into play, but it would involve a miserable future for the both of them. Spike spends his youth pining for a woman who is not interested and is past her prime by the time he gets her while Rarity wastes away in lonely spinsterhood for a decade before settling into an interspecies relationship with an immature teenager. Let me tell you, from the perspective of somebody who is older, teenagers look great, but they are not people you want to have a relationship with. They suck in bed, they have completely different priorities than adults have, and their idea of fun is too different. The kid wants to party and raise hell? Been there, done that, seen it, taped it thinks the adult. The adult wants to sit in front of the TV, drink, and have lazy oral sex? That gets really boring really quickly for the teenager.

@Background Pony #3A64  
It’s pointing out that it’s still just a game and they’ve never defined the rules or mechanics of it.

@RyuSpike  
Agreed on both counts, especially since talking nonhumans are evidently nowhere near an everyday EG-world thing (as opposed to the main ‘verse’s grab-bag of non-pone sapient races).

@lunafan22  
Me too. All the Sparity is wonderful.

@GekkanShounen  
lol I love this site

@Background Pony #3A64  
>whatever personal immoral misgivings  
including apparent xenophobia, anti-hetero pairings, anti-cross-species pairings, etc.
 
Pedophilia. It’s not. There’s an age gap, for sure, but  
>this particular song and dance  
Eh, at least you proved my opening point.
 
@lunafan22  
I can facepalm at you too! You can’t see it, and I’m too lazy to google a pic, but I’m laughing derisively at you as well. Pffha!

Frankly, the age gap between Rarity and Spike isn’t that huge. I imagine it to be kinda like Wendy and Dipper in Gravity Falls. The creepier parallel would be between Spike and Rarity in Equestria Girls. It just has all sorts of wrong happening there.

 
just three words and people get crazy

Ah, united in sin. Truly beautiful.
 
@lunafan22  
Not applicable in most cases. First, pedophilia is a sexual paraphilia in adults toward prepubecent children, and most people ship these two with the assumption that a) Spike is of age but still has a tiny body, b) Rarity (and the other Mane6) are actually older teenagers or c) they will get together in the future. In any case it would not involve an adult Rarity with a sexual attraction to an underage Spike. While that does happen with some, it does not represent the majority of Sparity fans’ conception of the ‘ship. Further, they are a dragon and a unicorn; not human or even real creatures, so it’s unclear how human consent rules of thumb would apply.

@GekkanShounen  
>whatever personal immoral misgivings
 
Pedophilia. You can say the word.

I’m actually impressed how active these haters are. They’re frequently the first to comment and the first to get their panties twisted in a bunch. That shows a strong type A personality if nothing else.
 
Anyway, on top of these characters being fictional and thus not representative of our moral compass used in the real world, it can also easily be argued why this ship isn’t exactly promoting whatever personal immoral misgivings certain people have projected in order to justify their pettiness. It’s a little more complicated than what’s seen on the outset. It’s just that this particular song and dance has been done and all our feet are sore and we’d like to sit back and rest for awhile rather than tango with annoying people.

@TheAmazingPeanuts  
All of the sick fetishes in the world are awww-right in fiction. It is a beautiful thing.

Even this ship is pedophilia or not, it doesn’t matter since the characters are fictional.

@Background Pony #8460  
That is not an instawin so much as it is flipping the Monopoly board because you landed on Boardwalk with a hotel.