There is a Horse in the Apple Store

Re:There is a Horse in the Apple Store by pyre on Saturday September 04, 2010 @04:41AM (#1662322)

Well, now we're talking in terms of relativity. You're saying that it's not 'horrible abuse' because it is standard treatment, but this says nothing of whether or not standard treatment is 'horrible abuse.' For example,

   The Jews that weren't killed in the concentration camps "didn't have
  it so  bad" compared to the ones were. But this says nothing of whether
    or not overall treatment of Jews in concentration camps was good or bad.

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Re:There is a Horse in the Apple Store by philk on Saturday September 04, 2010 @06:32AM (#1662456)

I'm saying that it's not "horrible abuse" because:

a) I've spent a reasonable amount of time around horses;

b) Can see nothing in that photo to suggest the horse has been mistreated or is distressed; and

c) Find this kind of trivialization of animal abuse by someone who has little experience with horses to be offensive nonsense.

There's real "horrible abuse" out there, and this is most emphatically not an example of it.

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Re:There is a Horse in the Apple Store by samstokes on Saturday September 04, 2010 @09:14AM (#1662624)

Whoa, I never expected Godwin to show up in a discussion thread about a horse.

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Re:There is a Horse in the Apple Store by pyre on Sunday September 05, 2010 @04:28AM (#1664223)

Godwin's law only applies when calling someone a Nazi or comparing someone to a Nazi(s). Godwin doesn't cover the word 'Nazi' or 'Jew' turning up in a discussion.

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