Talk:The Cutie Map - Part 1/@comment-4604642-20150404210615/@comment-26943476-20150404225538

If you notice, it's not actually framed as a negative thing that the ponies have no talents until it's shown that Starlight imposes her ideology on the townsfolk and her cutie mark is revealed. The townsfolk also state that "we're all equal, or none of us are", meaning that they believed they were alright and happy until Starlight's mark was revealed to them. Cutie Unmarking is a similar but different ideology to having cutie marks, as both having and not having them makes ponies equal. Twilight even mentions that she doesn't see that anything's wrong until Starlight imprisons her. And I think that's why Fluttershy was so open minded, after all, she's the most gentle pony, and non violent, like the brainwashed ponies, whereas the real battle was a mind game Starlight was playing, it makes sense that she would at least partially sympathise with the equal ideology.