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09-02-2015, 09:09 PM
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Re: Horse Drags Female Performer
But this horse wasn't being abused. Why be sad for the horse? It was out there doing what it was trained to do, and only panicked when something out of the ordinary happened. I live in an area where horses are a big part of the community, and they are everywhere around here. They are as commonplace to me as cats and dogs are to most folks. I guess that's why I see it as a partnership between the horse and rider rather than a master/subservient kind of relationship. |
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09-07-2015, 12:16 PM
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 Curmudgeonly Jackwagon Poster Rank:181 Country Trash Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8,293
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Re: Horse Drags Female Performer
The problem with your perception is that the horse has no choice in that equation. It doesn't 'elect' to be trained or to have a relationship. It is born with that purpose imposed upon it by humankind. And if it chooses not to cooperate and is deemed 'untrainable', it isn't as though it goes off to the wild to live a happy independent life in fields of glory. It is the human who decides that the horse isn't living up to its end of the 'partnership' and then the horse is disposed of accordingly. When humans trade the lives of animals with one another for money and then force them to act certain ways for sport or for toil or for breeding, that is not a 'partnership' between the two species. That is the very definition of 'master and servant.' Or, far more appropriately, 'master and slave.' That isn't to say that all horse breeders or trainers 'abuse' the horses physically or anything. I'm sure some are treated very well. But the fact remains that the animal in that equation never consented to the treatment. It is told from day 1 by humans what its role is and how it will act...and it is a human who ultimately 'disposes of' a horse that cannot or will not act in accordance with the human's wishes.  |
