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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2372461" data-attributes="member: 707">No, I'm not.  I'm asserting that once you reach a certain threshold of intelligence (Int 3, in D&D terms,) you cross a very specific and important boundary between a semi-conscious animal, and a fully cognizant being.The specific moralities I am gifting the warhorse with are the moralities of the warhorse's alignment.  Lawful-Good, you'll remember.  Hence my supposed possible motivations for why the warhorse wouldn't want to father a child on a particular mare.  As I've said, I'm not asserting that the warhorse would share Puritanical beliefs regarding mating, but neither do I necessarily believe a sentient horse has no sexual qualms, simply because unintelligent horses have none.You are free to believe that.  I think I've already shown that this is not true.  The fact that I believe the warhorse may have reservations about mating hardly proves that I want to make him into a human-shaped-like-a-horse.I am asserting that, once he becomes sentient, they aren't his people.  In the movie 2001 when the astronaut is transformed, he's no longer part of the human race.  He's transcended humanity.  In the same way, the paladin's mount has transcended being a horse, becoming far more.I don't disagree with this.  I can completely see an intelligent animal following his instincts.  But we're talking about an intelligent Lawful-Good paladin's mount here.The married man can be enticed to cheat on his wife, yes, but his free will, granted by his sentience, can allow him to reject that enticement.  Why should the warhorse be any different?I think you undervalue the power of willpower.  You may believe willpower is powerless in the face of base animal mating instinct.  I do not.</blockquote>

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