Wisdom from an animals rights activist

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Originally Posted by helicopter11

I am chatting with my friend on facebook and this is her response on why she hates horse racing:

"Horses are meant to be ridden and sometimes run fast but they should not race"

Sigh. This is right up there with a commenter I got into a discussion with re: horse racing who insisted that pet ownership was TOTALLY different from animals in sports because she KNEW that her pet was getting something emotionally rewarding out of the relationship.

I responded that people keep pets for the same reason people race horses- it amuses the human half of the relationship. I got no reply.

(Obviously I don't think there's anything wrong with horse racing or pet ownership; it just drives me crackers when people criticize something they don't have an interest in while attempting to justify something morally equivalent because they do have an interest in that, so therefore it's totally different because shut up, that's why)