Yet, you portend to have 20/20 hindsight
vision, and assert that hundreds of horses that are not fed for, bred
for, conditioned for, or experienced in endurance riding, in a land you
likely have never visited,
would be undoubtedly safe when involved in an event that is billed as
the "world's toughest endurance ride."
No it is not I portending to have 20/20 hindsight - it is those that
claim that the event went well because the world stepped in and whipped
the organizers into shape. This contention makes the assumption that it
would not have gone just as well if this had not have happened. That
contention is baseless since one event (the race run as initially
proposed) did not happen hence the observation does not exist. This is
a fallacious as the argument that because "I went out and cut down the
tree that was growing out over the roadway and I saved someone from
death because in three days the tree might fall on top of a car on the
roadway."
Until one can peer into both branches of a parallel universe - we
cannot establish cause and effect between the two.
Secondly - how do you know where I have and where I have not gone. I
have spent a lot of time in strange and wondrous places many of which I
cannot discuss so again an invalid assumption. Third I am not a member
of the organization that organized the event nor am I a citizen of
Mongolia. What they were doing was well within the bound of
international law - unlike the use of say the camel jockeys in the UAE.
Therefore I really have "no dog it that fight." I am, however, a member
of the AERC and the actions of the AERC reflect on each and every one
of its members and each of its members does have a "dog in the fight"
over the equine welfare practices of the AERC.
It's really quite simple when you get down to it - no need to be
confused.
Truman
-- “I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in
pseudoscience
“I maintain there is much more wonder in science
than in
pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any
meaning,
science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one,
of
being true.” Carl Sagan
