@Millennial Dan
Well whatever you or I think is the perfect or at least best possible method of governance in human society will probably never come to pass or at least not in the ways we think are correct so I’ll just follow @Background Pony #817E advice and contemplate the wasted opportunity of the authors to makes Celestias mane pink in this shot.
@Antonyourknee
The whole bowing and scraping thing is off-putting no matter how “nice” Celestia might be. Look how pathetic Twilight and the other ponies have behaved when they thought they might be in the disfavor of the princesses.
They elevate their royalty way too much, by my estimation. Just think; there was once a time when the power to complete the cycles of days and nights was held by many. Now, the second the two princesses go missing, no one knows what to do. Their rule has not been a perfect one.
@Millennial Dan
Perhaps ,but I felt it needed to be shown as it was the only cannon source I found that seems to have ever mentioned the relation in terminology between the ponies and their princess.
Besides I still say that to the ponies the word “subject” doesn’t have the sort of stigma it has to a modern democracy for it appears that the ponies managed to mix democracy(mayor mare) with a monarchal goverment in a way that makes them proud (they always bow to her presence)or at least unbothered by being called “subjects” by Celestia or which is said more often “ her little ponies”. The only stigma I might see coming from a monarcle term would be from king Sombra(crystal slaves) or Queen Chrysalis(minion).
@Antonyourknee
The occasional abuse of some terminology doesn’t have to spoil it. For example, the word ‘comrade’ still has a useful technical definition. There’s no need to constantly associate it with Soviets. The word “countrymen” still means what it means, in spite of all that happened in the French Revolution(s).
Also, the comic page you linked seems to be trying to get away from this kind of thing, just like I’m saying.
@Millennial Dan
Well technically their could be terrorist in Equestria,I mean I’m sure Trixies dominion of Ponyville could fit some definitions of terrorism and Celestia sure has heck didn’t do anything about that and since Equestria is a monarchy it only makes sense to call them a term that gives a hierarchal implication as at his comic page discusses the equestrian policy on social terminology appears to be vague at best…also to me the words countrymen and fellow citizen will always conjoin images of the French Revolution in which all the” citzens” and “countrymen” all gallantly obeyed the laws placed onto them by the “assembly” of fellow “countrymen” and we all know how well that worked for an autocratic free France rigth?
@Antonyourknee
What on earth are you saying? Are there terrorists in Equetria now, whose feeling Celestia mustn’t hurt by telling nasty lies about their camaraderie?
And if we were looking at the real world, I still notice that only autcrats have subjects. Everyone else just has countrymen, fellow citizens.
