Re: Side reins & gadgets


"cindi" <allisonacres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| lizzard woman wrote:
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| > As Sam Harris says in his brilliant book, a good idea is contagious. It
| > will get out and establish itself. Of course this can take time.... I
| > wonder when is enough time for BSM.
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| The thing of it is, there are other factors at work that act to keep
| other methods in common use. Why do western pleasure horses from their
| first rides at age 2 (or even 18 months) go around with heads forced
| down by draw reins? Because they win. Why do reiners exhibit speedy
| spins that are not correct, or sliding stops that are braced in front?
| Because they win. They shouldn't, but they do, I see it all the time.
| Why do upper level dressage horses go around braced and inverted with
| riders' arm muscles bulging? Because they win. So there are other
| incentives operating beyond which method is correct or produces the
| nicest moving, soundest, "happiest" horses. It's not a simple matter,
| like it is in science, to decide which theory is the most useful.
| Think of it like religion, Sharon. You don't understand why there are
| so many fundamentalist, young earth creationists who don't believe in
| evolution. The anwser is that it's not just a matter of right and
| wrong, support and no support, evidence and no evidence. There are
| other factors at work that motivate people to believe certain things.

Good points.

But I'll just add that many Fundamentalist religionists claim they DO have
evidence for a young earth, worldwide flood, Exodus, etc. They claim they
are right based on their (spurious) evidence. They do not go around saying
they are right for only emotional reasons.

sharon

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