...I hadn’t thought of that. Congratulations. You win. No, seriously. In the event that ponies can become immortal WITHOUT being alicorns, there simply isn’t a good enough argument for deathism, period.
For the sake of the story, however, when the argument gets brought up by Twilight, it’ll have to be shown to be magically impossible to do it. I’m going to have to make something up. Because the argument is literally too good. It actually makes the story a lot worse, because there’s no longer a meaningful conflict between the two ideologies.
Since it’s a story, the sides have to be somewhat balanced. But if we were debating alicornism vs. anti-alicornism for the sake of a thought experiment or something, I’d concede the victory to you for that one.
Why not talk about all ponies simply becoming immortal instead of alicorns?
...I hadn’t thought of that. Congratulations. You win. No, seriously. In the event that ponies can become immortal WITHOUT being alicorns, there simply isn’t a good enough argument for deathism, period.
For the sake of the story, however, when the argument gets brought up by Twilight, it’ll have to be shown to be magically impossible to do it. I’m going to have to make something up. Because the argument is literally too good. It actually makes the story a lot worse, because there’s no longer a meaningful conflict between the two ideologies.
Since it’s a story, the sides have to be somewhat balanced. But if we were debating alicornism vs. anti-alicornism for the sake of a thought experiment or something, I’d concede the victory to you for that one.