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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Horses step into gopher holes in their pasture areas and break their legs too. Or they get spooked and take a fall. It is a truth of life that injuries happen. Broken bones happen. And unfortunately in the case of horses, such broken bones are fatal. Nobody wants to see it, but it happens. Whether on the race track or in normal life.
Actually, I shouldn't say nobody wants to see it. The animal rights activists want to see it. They like watching animals get hurt because it allows them to stand up on their pedestal and browbeat the people they find inferior to themselves.
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Huh? I'm sure the point of the people against stampede is not that horses need to stop getting injured or dying period. Life obviously has hazards, for any living creature, including us.
The point is the rodeo/races are an unneccessary and unsafe activity and exist strictly for our amusement. Which is all true.
I don't even necessarily mind the races or rodeo, but people need to start debating the same argument.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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