@thps48  
Ah, right, or robots. That way, one is allowed to fuck a Blade (or Machina). X3

Yeah this is basically the version I go by when I’m on the internet.

Personified ponies look like girls bent over. Its all in the mind.

@umfodrol  
It has to be living.

@KINGROCKET
 

 
Go with glory, my friend.

Hahahahaha! No. But maybe close.

Internet mentality:  
Does it look fuckable?  
[Yes] -Fuck it.  
[No] -Fuck it.

@Background Pony #0813  
I think you are right. My bad!

@Smudge_Proof  
I think there’s some confusion here: sentience is definitely the right word for self-awareness with no implication of wisdom. My point was the context suggested self-awareness and wisdom, and so sapience would be more accurate.  
While such a creature would be sentient, describing, let’s say, Rarity as being sentient would be like describing the summit of Mt. Everest as “above sea level”.

@Background Pony #0813  
Fair enough, I see your point now.  
Still, I think sentience is a good word to use to describe self-awareness without necessarily entailing wisdom and such. Was there a word for that in use already?

@Smudge_Proof  
my point was precisely that “sentience” does not entail wisdom and judgement, and so was incorrect for describing a creature with “human intelligence (or greater)”.
 
Are alligators lizard-like? Yes.  
Was there already a word for members of genus Alligator? No.  
Did “alligator” already have a meaning in the English language, specifically a meaning that might be used in the same context and thus cause ambiguity? No.  
Do I have a problem with the word “alligator”? No.

@Background Pony #0813  
Language is of those who use it. Words do and will change meanings over time. Accepting what you claim, the use you are objecting to is now pretty much the common standard way to express the concept in question. Sentience is used to describe self-awareness. That does not necessarily entail wisdom and judgment.  
Do you object to the word alligator? Because it originally means lizard in Spanish.

@coldnar  
the English language will forever be the butt of jokes if people continue to misuse its words.  
Just because many people, include sci-fi writers, use a word this way doesn’t make it right, it makes them wrong.

And here I thought the punchline to this was that it’s not okay to do Rarity because she doesn’t fulfill condition number 1.

lol

Sad

@Background Pony #0813  
Sentience is a perfectly ok way to express this. In many philosophical texts on the 20th century (many are sci fi novels, but culture expresses itself in weird ways sometimes) the “Feeling” part of the definition is defined as having a morality or empathy. This has been so for a century, but of course the dictionary definition doesnt change because such thing tend to not change unless there is a major cultural shift.

“a nonhuman creature with sentience” Sapience is the word you’re looking for.
 
Sentience means possessing senses and awareness. Insects have sentience.  
Sapience means possessing wisdom and judgement. On earth, only humans have sapience (it’s even part of our taxonomic name twice: homo sapiens sapiens).

And both paths lead to the same conclusion. XD

@dt  
Agreed.

Needs a line where it’s like “It doesn’t matter, it’s fictional!”

That illustrated guide is not that helpful, now is it?

The Captain Jack Harkness test is now a legit thing!

Greater than human intelligence?  
Won’t that make the creature itself morally ambiguous?

Subtle.