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I immediately thought of this as well (horse sleigh scene in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment comes to mind, I mean, neither of us has experience with horse-f
by moritzwarhier 3y ago
I immediately thought of this as well (horse sleigh scene in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment comes to mind, I mean, neither of us has experience with horse-first transportation, I assume).
I just arrived at a different conclusion. To compare the number of people killed by automobiles and their infrastructure, compared to the numbers for people killed by horses (I can't give precise numbers for either, I'll admit that) - that comparison seems absurd to me.
In other words, relative to the population in urban areas, I'd be very surprised if horses causes as many deaths as cars+roads.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoYou surely have to compare the rates per horse not per unit population.
- moritzwarhier 3y agodepends, I don't think it's even possible to have as many horses on earth as there are automobiles :)
- Tade0 3y agoWell, the "village idiot" was usually one not because he was born this way and his parents cared for him until adulthood, but because he got kicked by a horse/cow and survived, albeit with brain damage.