>cats are sapient now >ponies are literal slave owners

>>29458577
They're not the same species.

>>29458577
>sapient
so cats and dogs are apes now?
You're looking for the word sentient you fucking moron.

>>29458577
They actually lampshaded that on S01 with AJ and her sheeps.

>>29458587
Stop being a dumbass. Sentient just refers to something that's alive; every animal is sentient. Sapience is like human intelligence/consciousness.
>http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sapient
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom#Sapience

>>29458698
Sapient refers to humans, you know, homosapien?
Sentience refers to being able to feel and think, the different levels of being sentient is what separates humans from animals.

>>29458705
Definition one

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>>29458735
4chan ate my picture

>>29458577
>what are Diamond Dogs

>>29458748
>furfags

>>29458705
>Sapient refers to humans, you know, homosapien
Look at the definitions again, you're using only one, one that isn't even derived from the original latin root but instead from homo sapien , a scientific term which is based off the original definition. Just look at the first definition, the actual first one. Literally all animals can feel, but not all of them can attain wisdom
>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sapient
>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sentient
>http://www.rebekkahniles.com/2012/03/word-box-sapience-vs-sentience.html
>https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/sentient

>>29458748
>>same shit with dogs

>>29458577
All animals are sapient. You're looking for sentient. If the animals were sentient, you could probably make the argument with some leftists that this was slaverym as it stands, owning a doggo in Equestria is the same as owning a doggo on Earth.

>>29458577
Niggers aren't people, Anon

You're coming to these conclusions now?

What about the cows, anon? You know, the ones that talk and use reason but nopony gives a shit?
Or Spike, the child who is contractually obligated to serve for life? Can't board public transportation without a real person escorting him? Slave with a gold collar in the pretty princess' palace?

Ponies have practiced racial segregation and enslavement right from the get-go and never stopped.
How about the time Rarity generalized that all members of the Mule race were fucking ugly, and the mule standing right next to her was totally okay with it because he's just a second-class citizen anyway?
Seriously it's fucking everywhere.

>>29458577
>1880s
The only conclusion Ive come to is that pony tech evolved from pony needs.
Pony's are there own cars so there for there most part content with dirt roads, same thing with houses, pony's have fur, so a draft is not really a concern.

>>29458856
You've got it backwards. Sentient means able to feel and perceive. Animals react to external stimuli and seem to capable of some form of emotion, so they're sentient. Sapient implies the capability of novel thought and self-awareness, which most animals we've studied don't seem to be capable of.

>>29458856
You got that backwards, smartass.

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>>29458577
Cats have always been sapient you dumb faggot. They only pretend to be our lessers for free food and endless ear scratches.

>non-human characters with human personalities own pets
>pets are non-sapient, but there are individuals of same or similar species that are sapient

Did you mean almost all cartoons with non-human characters?
Seriously, just look at Goofy and Pluto from Disney.
This shit isn't anything new

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>ITT underage b8s and retards who never took Latin, let alone English

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>>29458705
Wrong.
Learn to English.

All humans and fictional beings of human intelligence are sentient...not all humans are sapient.

So far no other species on Earth have been demonstrated to possess sentience.

>>29458577
So?
We also keep apes in zoos(and some may keep them as pets), even though we are essential just apes with less hair and more intelligent

>>29458577
>1880s Belgium
?

>>29458577
cows on AJ's farm
minotaurs

>1880s Belgium
no reason to learn history of non-countries