>>40783116It's better because love is an emotion, and the ability to talk inherently switches all relations into the transactional zone. Negotiations replace spontaneity. Every action becomes calculated, every response a possibility of deception, emotions beyond simple lust or excitement a weakness. There's no place for anything else, lest your irrationality becomes a vulnerability to be exploited by the more rational actor.
When people talk about magical "teenage love" they mean the short period of time before rational thinking makes real bonds impossible. Inevitably it ends with one of the parties losing the feeling first and entering rational mode, which makes the other party hurt, closing the door to real feelings forever after.
It's irrelevant what species can talk or even whether it's a biological system, magical ponies would be exactly the same, because anything else is an inherent contradiction.
All emotion is part of the limbic system which is ancient evolutionairy and predates the ability to talk by millions of years. It's in direct conflict with the cold, rational word based abstract thinking. It's also responsible for the sense of smell, including pheromones. Humans are steadily evolving away from being controlled by the limbic system, which is equivalent to losing the ability to truly romantically bond. Love isn't a rational decision ('she's a good catch and knows how to cook'), it's being smitten by the pheromones and the scent (the limbic system can't see, but it smells), and ancient part of the brain making you irrationally happy and euphoric to be with whatever entity the ancient brain structures detect as a good mate, using probably hundreds of million years old heuristics.
For this reason real mares are infinitely better than both real women and any other talking entity (whether magical ponies or ai bots), as their lack of ability to rationally pretend to love you means you can safely drop all defenses. It's the ability to feel primal teenage love even at 60.
