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Joe Long wrote:

> It read that way to me.  If you accept the premise that riding longer distances
> increases risk to the horses, and therefore it is more caring for the horse to
> ride shorter distances, then you must take it to its logical conclusion:  if 25
> miles is more caring than 100 miles, then ten miles is better than 25, and one
> mile is better than ten -- and someone who truly cares for his horse would never
> ride him at all!
>  
To do that you are filling in a lot of words that weren't there. Here I 
think emotion, personal philosophy, disgust for the original poster, 
whatever  gets in the way of reading what was written. While the words 
in any language can be imprecise - they become even more so when we 
bring our personal views and to some extend experiences are factored 
into reading them ( a very human trait). This is the very reson a 
definition and theorems in mathematics or physics are four times a long 
as they really need to be and this is why our legal system relies 
heavily on Latin. The precision of Latin is also one reason it is a dead 
language (except for legal concepts) we humans don't really want that 
precision in our everyday language.

I sure didn't read that into the original post.

Truman

--

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)




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