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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Did automobiles replacing horses, diminishing horse population, diminishing horse suffering -- as a consequence of work forced upon the animals. Is that moral win for horses; less suffering? Although their population is vastly smaller than 130 years ago.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hold on my neighbour owns a horse, I'll go and ask him..

Edit, I asked but he just kinda stared at me then started eating hay

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Your neighbor has a strange diet.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

you got that right. pronoun antecedent issues

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if some languages have a way to avoid it. Maybe different pronouns for the subject and object?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not knowing anything, I would guess some languages just don't have pronouns or our equivalent

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I hadn't considered that. Could be.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

None of us considered the fact I said "neigh-bour"

๐Ÿค”

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man, I missed that! Shame on me.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.

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