1) Look again. Your question is now diamonds.

2) What a slippery slope we descend…

Pegasus have to train to fly. Unicorns have to train to cast. For the most part we use it responsibly. Or even in the darkest of views, we use it to alter our environment, but our environment alone.

Shapeshifting at its core is about deception. Ideally it would only be used to defend oneself from attack. And if that’s all it was being used for, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But that’s not what shapeshifters do. Nearly all shapeshifting creatures are predictors that use their power to manipulate their pray in order to destroy them from the inside out. There may be upstanding individual shapeshifters, but no species of shapeshifter has a positive reputation.

You want to call me a bigot, fine, but history doesn’t lie. At best, as individual species, they’re mischievous, manipulative opportunists. At worst, they attack a nation unprovoked and attempt genocide.

3) Well, you can’t do that on somepony else’s property, that’s trespassing.

I think the reason you don’t see ponies do that is mostly a modesty thing. If somepony cut the grass, dried it and served it I’m sure no pony would be able to tell the difference, other than size. So, no. No fine if it’s your own property. Might be negatively viewed from a social standpoint. Unless I’ve missed my mark, be about like a human grabbing a walnut off the ground, smashing it open and eating it.

4) Sort of got to this late. Sorry about that. How about tomorrow?