Why ponies are jerks?

[arftbmrf 40]

I have an question. Could you perhaps give an example of a good character that lack flaws?

Ponies from 3,5/3 Generations. And by lack flaws, you mean not brainwashing ponies and not trying to destroy the world, like Starlight did? Or you mean not throwing innocent ponies into a jail, like a sheriff did, in "Appleoosa's Most Wanted"? Or not making your friend cry, like Pinkie did in "Filli Vanilli"? Or not ruining the whole reception, like the mane 6 did in "Best Night Ever"? Or not throwing ponies back, like Bon Bon did in "Putting your hoof down"? Or not turning the lives of ponies into living hell, like Babs Seed did, in "One bad apple"? Or not sabotaging and exploding the whole factory, like Rainbow Dash did, in "Tanks for the memories"? Or not brainwashing the whole town, like Twilight did in "Lesson Zero"? Or not nearly killing five ponies, like Lightning Dust did, in "Wonderbolts Academy"? Or not being bigoted racists, like Twilight and Rarity, when they called mules stubborn (Applebucking Season) and ugly (A Dog and a Pony show) respectively? ("A Dog and Pony Show" has Rarity's reaction to being called a mule: She screams that mules are ugly and breaks down into tears. However, later on mules are shown to be a sentient "race" just like ponies.) Or not being a speciest, like Trenderhoof? (There are several instances (Particularly in Sweet and Elite and Simple Ways, of unicorns looking down on or at the very least condescending to earth ponies, particularly Trenderhoof's seemingly innocuous line about having "respect for the work ethic of earth ponies".)

I can go on further, but you've got the idea.

You think that the writers are incompetent because they show characters as being natural, help teach life lessons and because ''they act like jerks'', again something which you have no proof for. Your welcome not to watch the show if you hate it so much since you obviously don't care at all about the opposite opinions to your own x) 

 

You give no argument, except for "there Jerks and i don't like it." If you don't like the reality, that sometimes living beings, be it humans, ponies, meat eating worms, etc. are sometimes showing flaws, i think you should change the channel.

 

Writing Tip: It's actually a good thing for characters to be flawed. If they aren't, well that's how you get a boring characters.

 

And in real life, there will be jerks. So some ponies being jerks is actually more realistic.

Look at the RL reaction at racism. And in the show nobody cares about racism whatsoever, which makes ponies even bigger jerks than people. Here are examples from TV tropes, with racism that nobody cares about:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FantasticRacism/WesternAnimation

Scrolls down to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic section.

 

So, being a bigoted racist is not being a jerk or what?

Edited February 29, 2016 by arftbmrf

[Jeric 46,890]

The concept of complexity being a good thing and leading to general virtue is hard to grasp for some I suppose. I understand that people may not want flaws in others because of perceived personal injuries (as an example). Flawed characters are still preferable to me. 

 

Imagine people (and ponies) complexly. Imagine this topic temporarily locked.