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Normal people didn't ride horses everywhere. They weren't used like cars. I'm so sick of this analogy. People walked places. If it was too far to walk you used
by queenkjuul 13d ago
Normal people didn't ride horses everywhere. They weren't used like cars. I'm so sick of this analogy. People walked places. If it was too far to walk you used a horse drawn bus/tram. If you had to much to carry you used a horse drawn truck. Every single person wasn't riding an individual horse ten minutes each way to buy groceries every day like that do now with cars. Cars unquestionably kill drastically more people than horses ever did or even could. Tens of thousands a year in this country alone! The leading cause of death for children and young adults!
- akerl_ 13d agoWe're pretty off track given that ya'll are nitpicking the metaphor rather than the actual topic, but claiming that horses were never common doesn't really have any connection to the claim that per-mile-moved / per-human-carried, horses are also dangerous.
- queenkjuul 13d agoThey are nowhere close to cars
- akerl_ 13d agohttps://www.biamo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/HorsesOnly-Horse-Riding-Accident-Statistics-in-2023-website-article.pdf https://www.biamo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/HorsesOnly-...
- munksbeer 12d agoNever use analogies when arguing online. It only ever results in exactly this, people nitpicking the metaphor. You've essentially given them a way to "be correct", about something irrelevant.
- queenkjuul 11d agoI'm not nitpicking, it's just a bad metaphor, entirely, on its face. No nits about it
- akerl_ 11d agoDo you have something you want to discuss about the actual point I’m making, or are you acting strictly on behalf of the metaphor police?