Talk:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic/@comment-24791619-20170614160146/@comment-24245960-20170615134743

It's true, and that's a fine example of the shades of grey that I mentioned. The nature versus nurture argument is a fundamentally flawed paradox in that one side or the other never wins in every case and furthermore that people are capable of changing if they truly want to.

One of the things I love about MLP: FiM is that it often shows us exactly that. Some antagonists like Discord, Trixie, Sunset or Starlight have it in their hearts to change when given the opportunity and do so because they truly want to change, while others like Sombra, Tirek or Chrysalis refuse to even think about attempting to change not because they are unable to change but because they have become so comfortable in their ways, no matter how miserable they may be, that they fear the new and different lives they could make for themselves and thus stubbornly deny the opportunity to change even when it is freely offered to them.