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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 2372152" data-attributes="member: 9045">Pendragon> You're still making the assumption that this increase in intelligence somehow grants the horse more than intelligence.  You seem to be gifting it with specific moralities and preconceptions that don't neccesarily come with intelligence and/or sentience.  From my PoV you seem to be wanting to turn a horse into a horse-shaped-human, instead of trying to figure out how sentience and intelligence might affect a horse.  Sure, the fact that a normal mare has a lesser perspective and intelligence might be a factor, but what about the fact that the horse is now intelligent enough to know he's a horse?  He's smart enough to know that all other differences aside, those are his 'people'.  And there's still the way that equine mating works to be considered; especially the part where when a mare goes into heat, the male is pheromonally enticed to want to mate with her.Let me present this as an alternate illustration to your Human:Ape analogy...  An intelligent, otherwise upstanding man can still be lured into cheating on his wife with an attractive young girl who is extremely willing and desiring of him.  The idea of cheating on his wife may be repugnant to him, but the natural allure to his baser instincts can still overcome that attitude and lead him to follow his more animalistic urges regardless.Thus the intelligent paladin's mount might just find that, even if he would normally be insulted by the prospect of mounting a female of his own species, once she goes into heat he may find his own reproductive process overcoming that attitude.</blockquote>

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