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Horses do not exist to serve man.
It's questionable whether horses would still exist for any other purpose considering we created them and brought them around the world. The only untouched wild horse left in existence is Przewalski’s horse from Central Asia, and some reintroduced/invasive NA wild mustangs.
Without animal husbandry they would probably be about as rare as buffalo, currently only 500,000 and at one point only a confirmed 325 existed.
The way I see it, horses currently have it pretty good on average with wide spaces, very little work to do, and they tend to live full lives as they're not usually bred for meat. Probably happier than the average human.
The steady march of human-driven extinctions is a terrible argument for forcibly breeding a population into the hundreds of millions for the express purpose of manual labor until death. That's like reading I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and being on the side of the malicious AI because it's keeping a half dozen people alive specifically to torture them. Also living things don't need a "purpose" merely to be alive, this is a capitalist delusion.
oh lmao, those capitalists abusing all the horses lol
I guess more generally it is a hierarchical delusion, since it's hierarchy that demands purpose from it's subordinates, capitalism is just the specific hierarchy at play here.
Your point genuinely escapes me. I think you are just engaging in distraction, and I think it is you that you are trying to distract.
it's exactly that. People cant handle the cognitive dissonance in the fact that modern treatment of domesticated animals is utterly unethical.
if you fully accept that you're contributing to the suffering of millions by participating in the meat and dairy industries, you have to be able to live with that. I understand that it's one of the shittier things i do. maybe I should hate myself but i dont, I'm human and complicated like everyone else, and I dont need to tell myself that all my actions are morally good. maybe one day ill quit various things, like murder and smoking
I'm not engaging with you because you already lost all credibility.