RE: [RC] [RC] OT - Orpheo, a.k.a. Merlin (the Magnificent!) - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM
Maybe. I appreciate others cultures, but speaking only for
myself, I also don’t embrace it when it involves the unnecessary torture
and death of an animal as pure entertainment, and then saying its okay because it’s
just a cultural thing. So was the burning of women who kept cats as pets
at one time. At a certain point in civilization’s evolution, you’d
hopefully move past such things. I wholly endorse and support other
cultural practices such as tapas bars and the drinking of sangria.
If I personally found it entertaining to mutilate thousands of
animals to death in the name of (cultural) sport (which, after all, is still
just torture that we’ve been doing for a really long time), then other countries
and cultures would be every bit as welcome to say that my doing so was distasteful
to them. From the animal’s (or person’s) point-of-view, torture
is torture, regardless of the zip code or the costumes worn while doing so.
I’m grateful every day that my culture also allows me the right to
express my views without expecting to suddenly disappear at the hands of the
local police for having vented that opinion.
JMO. However, I do apologize for making a public
comment that has nothing to do with endurance, and thus will end my public participation
in this thread.
Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
From: Barbara McCrary
[mailto:bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:06 PM To: D'Arcy Demianoff-Thompson; suendavid@xxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] OT - Orpheo, a.k.a. Merlin (the Magnificent!)
I don't admire torturing animals,
but this is NOT our culture and it's basically none of our business. We
wouldn't like it if someone from another culture criticized ours. They
could say, "You horrible people, you let women go around in public without
covering their heads, or worse yet, you let them wear pants or go to the beach
half naked. It's all a matter of culture and perspective, and I don't
think we should be criticizing or dictating to other cultures how they should
conduct theirs.
As for the horse, I have never seen
a horse run sideways. It's incredible...
