Talk:Sunburst/@comment-25270260-20160429191948/@comment-27161581-20160429195653

By determinism, the first event caused every other event to happen. Therefore it is actually Lauren Faust's fault for making this generation of MLP, more specifically by making Starlight evil.... but wait there's more. Since Lauren Faust was born in this world, it is actually the fault of whatever thing/event that created the universe that caused Starlight to be evil.

Alternatively if you want to keep logic in-universe...

By any sufficiently convoluted way of thinking, event Y can somehow be linked to event X. Therefore assuming that characters have free will implies that the actor of event Y caused event X. However you are missing a key idea whitehorse. Starlight also has free will. Therefore unless Sunburst has no free will, and cannot be held responsible for his actions, since he has no free will, Starlight would also have free will and therefore can choose. Hence she can choose whether or not to act in the manner she does and is responsible for her actions.

Fast breakdown for you:

Sunburst has free will but Starlight does not -> irrational.

Sunburst does not have free will while Starlight does -> irrational

Sunburst and Starlight both have free will -> Starlight at fault as the last causation factor, and Sunburst's inability to predict her actions 10+ years into the future.

Neither Pony has free will -> no one is at fault.

The only reasonable way Sunburst can be held responsible for Starlight's actions is if there was if he knew that his positive contribution would result in Starlight becoming who she was. If fault was found based on these premises it would be irrational since Sunburst had no way of knowing Starlight would become.

The other way is to believe that Sunburst has free will while Starlight does not, which is impossible, as I have explained previously.

Technically, whitehorse, you are wrong.