Strawman Has a Point: Difference between revisions

* In one scene from the "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" fanfic ''Alicornundrum'' by RealityCheck, Princess Celestia confronts Sunset Shimmer on her (canon) flaw of having obsessed on obtaining the power of an alicorn princess without devoting any effort to either becoming worthy of that power or sparing any thought as to what she'd do with it once she had it. Sunset reminds Celestia that the process of becoming an alicorn is immensely difficult and iffy (as only four ponies in the known history of Equestria have managed it in canon). Sunset then posits that when you have only one mortal lifetime in which to achieve an almost impossible task, and one of the rewards for successfully completing that task is ''immortality'', then its only ''logical'' to mono-focus on completing that task to the exclusion of other concerns -- because once you actually finish it you will then have all the time you possibly need to work out where you will go from there, but you have no idea how much time you will need to finish it and you're on a very strict clock known as 'mortality'. While Celestia still maintains that an obsessive pursuit of power is a poor lifestyle choice, she does concede that Sunset has an entirely valid point.