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Horses ARE Forever (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by finitebanjo@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of "just being themselves" for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever... and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That is not a justification for their abuse and subjugation. You wouldn't make that argument about an enslaved race of humans.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

imagine someone killing a whole neighborhood and enslaving the survivors and when the resistance says "we don't exist to serve you" they replied "um actually you'd be dead without us"

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes. The Horse Resistance.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

point missed, metaphors discovered. just don't overlook the dissonance in the fact that horses being incapable of organizing a resistance is another point against the ethics of enslaving them

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Horses are not human. They are entirely different beings from us which require our understanding and not just our empathy, if you imagine yourself living like a horse then you've failed the assignment.

I said they were probably happy having humans feed them, cloth them, clean up their shit, mani/pedi, brush them, and let them run around big open fields. That is justification.

Horses that Humans created are symbiotic.