An interesting take but I'm not sure that's as big of a flaw as you present it.
"And most importantly, when May Bellwether is giving her villainous dialog she drops a bombshell statistic: 90% of the Zootopian residents are prey animals."
Minor aside, this is, as far as I remember, biologically correct. At least in the real world it's due to the fact that after each step on a food chain you lose a certain amount of nutrition. The numbers work out that you can support only about 10% of the previous level of the food chain on the next one. So 1 tonne of grass supports 100 kg of herbivore, supports 10 kg of carnivore. In Zootopia who knows why it's like that but I kinda like they kept that.
"In a democratic society, where dietism is a common issue amongst the populous, a statistic of 90% causes the whole believable world of Zootopia to collapse in upon itself. Because in that kind of republic, a lion is extremely unlikely to be mayor."
In a democratic society where racism is a common issue amongst the populous, if only 12% of the population is black it is extremely unlikely for a black person to be president.
Oh, wait... That happened. Two terms in a row. And yes, I realise the US isn't 90% white but my point is just that it's not as unlikely as you present. It actually fits the US reasonably well and we don't know anything about the political situation in Zootopia.
"Oh yeah, she could have run against him for the position. And she would have won too, easily. You can try to debate me on this, and that Lionheart could have won, but trust me I've debated every scenario to myself over the past two days. There is no way a lion beats a sheep who have similar messages in a Zootopia election given the above items of dietism in combination with Zootopia's demographic."
We don't know their background, which could tell us why Lionheart won. Presumably there were other candidates for mayor and he beat them as well. And we do know speciesism exists in Zootopia. What do we know about lions? They are king of the jungle. What do we know about sheep? They are dumb herd animals that just follow each other everywhere. Bellweather would've been running against a fair amount of prejudice herself.
"And even worse, for some reason, Ms. Bellwether continues to subject predators to the poisoning, even after she ousted Lionheart from political office. She no longer has any motive to do so. She already stirred the pot and got what she wanted. Why did she continue marking targets? It makes no sense."
Come on, you're smarter than that. I don't want to make my reply unnecessarily long though. I'll just end on something random, like a quote from 1984.
"And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival."
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
An interesting take but I'm not sure that's as big of a flaw as you present it.
"And most importantly, when May Bellwether is giving her villainous dialog she drops a bombshell statistic: 90% of the Zootopian residents are prey animals."
Minor aside, this is, as far as I remember, biologically correct. At least in the real world it's due to the fact that after each step on a food chain you lose a certain amount of nutrition. The numbers work out that you can support only about 10% of the previous level of the food chain on the next one. So 1 tonne of grass supports 100 kg of herbivore, supports 10 kg of carnivore. In Zootopia who knows why it's like that but I kinda like they kept that.
"In a democratic society, where dietism is a common issue amongst the populous, a statistic of 90% causes the whole believable world of Zootopia to collapse in upon itself. Because in that kind of republic, a lion is extremely unlikely to be mayor."
In a democratic society where racism is a common issue amongst the populous, if only 12% of the population is black it is extremely unlikely for a black person to be president.
Oh, wait... That happened. Two terms in a row. And yes, I realise the US isn't 90% white but my point is just that it's not as unlikely as you present. It actually fits the US reasonably well and we don't know anything about the political situation in Zootopia.
"Oh yeah, she could have run against him for the position. And she would have won too, easily. You can try to debate me on this, and that Lionheart could have won, but trust me I've debated every scenario to myself over the past two days. There is no way a lion beats a sheep who have similar messages in a Zootopia election given the above items of dietism in combination with Zootopia's demographic."
We don't know their background, which could tell us why Lionheart won. Presumably there were other candidates for mayor and he beat them as well. And we do know speciesism exists in Zootopia. What do we know about lions? They are king of the jungle. What do we know about sheep? They are dumb herd animals that just follow each other everywhere. Bellweather would've been running against a fair amount of prejudice herself.
"And even worse, for some reason, Ms. Bellwether continues to subject predators to the poisoning, even after she ousted Lionheart from political office. She no longer has any motive to do so. She already stirred the pot and got what she wanted. Why did she continue marking targets? It makes no sense."
Come on, you're smarter than that. I don't want to make my reply unnecessarily long though. I'll just end on something random, like a quote from 1984.
"And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival."
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~