Raiko

I don't care much for the 'tolerate' part. In my experience, tolerance has always been a bunch of bull. Love your enemy, but that's it. People claim 'tolerance', but all it really ever amounts to is calling anyone who disagrees or conflicts hate-mongers or ignorant.

Yeah, I've actually been wondering that myself. Who the hell started that whole thing anyways? (and where is the guy who started the term 'brony' right now? Do you think he's doing well?)

Well put my friend, though I think it's better to have both the good and bad of everything rather than just one or the other. A human's capability to do whatever the hell it wants makes their choice all the more pugnant. Still, it sometimes seems even the most basic lessons or common sense blows right by people, especially with the dawn of the modern era. Less values seem to being around these days. Still, I find it hilarious when people call themselves a part of a fandom and yet contradict what they're a fan of to an extreme degree. I think if Rainbow Dash existed in real life, she would probably be called an arrogant bragger, and Applejack would get made fun of for her roots and accent (while being called ignorant), Twilight would get called a dork, Pinkie Pie would get labelled as annoying and even psycho, Rarity would be called a bitch, and Fluttershy....yeah I'm sure you can imagine how bad that would go. The show puts out the obvious lessons for each episode that they learned and what not, but I think lessons can be learned from subtext, which is what I'm getting at. What about you guys? Do you think if people existed that acted like the characters in the show, would you judge them or befriend them?

Yeah but you can't use that as an excuse to forgive fucks up, you use it as a way to help come to terms with them. No one's perfect but you don't just let everything slide because of that lol.

And yet it seems everyone forgets them, and as I said earlier it's strange that a fandom of a show based around friendship can be so radically different lol. I'm by no means saying we should all join hands or some load of bull like that (seriously that would make me sick), and by no means everyone should just 'tolerate' everyone else, but I think there's a lot of head butting over slight different personalities or quirks that shouldn't be going on and yet happens constantly lol.