Talk:Trixie/@comment-99.232.206.160-20130321073119/@comment-173.16.121.153-20130330052152

I'm cool with that, just, in consideration of their concerns, say that since Trixie is the most powerful unicorn after Twilight, that she, under normal hierarchy considerations, ought to be promoted to that position.

Oh, and by the way, social rules are not, as the great Justice Holmes might call them, "brooding omnipresences in the sky". Although there was an acknowledgement that in the first duel Trixie had cheated by having an unfair advantage over Twilight, the fact that the Alicorn Amulet was used in the second duel indicates that there was agreement that the Alicorn Amulet would be used (in fact it was part and parcel of the re-challenge). In other words, rules are only as good as the contingent resources (and in some cases, their distribution) agreed upon by any party. This of course, can change based on the levels/standards of values/situations that a people as a whole might agree upon, but that's not important here. To put it even more bluntly, the fact that Trixie had cheated is not relevant to an overall ranking of "strongest unicorns". The alicorn amulet simply gave her an artificial advantage.