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@Wishy Washy  
Yup, and considering that the story establishes that masters must abuse, rape, beat, degrade, and dehumanize their mares, under the threat of being turned into mares themselves if they don’t. A large part of the conflict of the story is that Mac has to do horrible things to the mares - including his own sister - or risk getting turned into a mare himself.
 
So yeah, abuse and torture are government-mandated. This poor zebra’s hopes for a kind master are pretty much nonexistent.

@Background Pony #03CC  
Because we’re evil. We are also good. Angels and Demons, Creators and Destroyers, both the greatest good and the greatest evil the world has ever seen. Because we all have potential, potential that can be followed to either end of the scale. Hence why referring to humanity as a collective is flawed; ‘we’ is formed from a collection of ‘I’s.
 
tl,dr: people tend to only see that we have the unique ability to destroy, while forgetting that we also have the unique ability to create.

And then she discovers the hard way that there is no such thing as a kind or gentle master in Post-Fall Equestria. Sorry toots, but welcome to Hell.