How would violent felonies be handled in Equestria?
The most common villains we see punished on the show are basically magical beings committing the equivalent of domestic terrorism, basically supervillains who are a threat to all Equestria. Discord is encased in stone because honestly that's the only way he could've been contained. Tirek and Cozy Glow are sent to prison in Tartarus. And Sombra is banished/shattered with a magical artifact who's purpose is more to restore love and unity than kill anyone.
The one criminal that isn't taken out by magic de-powering artifacts, Chrysalis, is basically just banished. Multiple times. When she's running away from the hive in To Where And Back Again after her second attack on Equestria Twilight is like "Let her go, she'll come around." And the first time they took out Chrysalis all they really did was throw her and her changelings far away.
In the Cutie Map Starlight escapes into a network of caves so she can't be caught but if they did catch her what would they have even done? Given her a lecture? Would she have actually been imprisoned?
Have we even seen any of the lesser baddies in the show even get punished, ever?
And what would they do with more realistic criminals who's crimes are both more small-scale and far more severe? There's murder, obviously.
An even thornier crime; how would Equestria respond to, say, a rape? Would the perpetrator just be run out of town a la Chrysalis? Go to Tartarus? Would it just start a dialogue about what lead the perpetrator to do such a thing, basically being treated as an extreme friendship problem? When Starlight mind controls her friends the mane six are basically just really mad at her, but then they get over it. Would rape even be as traumatizing to ponies as it is to humans, considering how they shake off mind control?
Submitted March 05, 2020 at 12:23PM by Crocoshark
via reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/fe0grs/how_would_violent_felonies_be_handled_in_equestria/?utm_source=ifttt
No comments :
Post a Comment