Talk:The Cutie Map - Part 2/@comment-4531200-20150404223514/@comment-5176709-20150405020443

Okay Not sure if you're going to understand but basically heres what was going on:

This was an exploration into a very disturbing philossophy and I'm not sure everybody will quite understand the conotations, Starlight's overall Plan was that by Literally removing what made ponies individuals (basically their entire personality and abilities and everything) she was making them friends, the idea is that total equality =Happiness, no competition, no uniqueness and No individuality. the problem with this (not to mention the brainwashing, kidnapping of royalty, imprisonment of individuals, cultic references, outright Crippling of people and removal of their own individuality ala Nazi Germany) is that fighting is natural, disagreements Are natural, Being individual is as much as important to being friends with others as it is to being happy yourself! and starlight did not understand this.

It's also slightly implied that sometimes your group of friends isnt invincible and you need to accept help from others who have abilities that you do not. the entire two parter used a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron style setting to show that.

TL:DR: Individuality and Difference is A Good thing, Forcing others to be just like you, or emulating other people you think are happy is not the path to happiness in any sense of the word