Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-5015799-20130705183046/@comment-6029775-20130705210703

@Bunai: The point of the image was that being born or marrying into a hierarchy doesn't guarantee those qualities either. Well, they'd probably be educated, but there have been plenty of greedy, egotistical, stupid, and flat out sadistic rulers in history. Look at ancient Egypt. Thousands or maybe millions of lives were spent making big fancy statues and pyramids because the rulers had such insatiable egos that they had to have a better monument than the last guy.

Were the system more like a meritocracy, that would at least be less likely to happen.