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Re: [RC] New Poll up - Joe LongOn Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:20:32 -0500, Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Given the current discussion on various sites concerning deaths at endurance rides, a new poll question has been put on the SERA website. It is Are 10 deaths a year resulting from metabolic failure acceptable? Let your voice be hear go vote at http://www.seraonline.org/ Truman, What the...????????? What a loaded "poll." What is "acceptable?" What is the alternative? There is a way -- and ONLY one way -- to eliminate equine fatalities in endurance rides: stop having endurance rides. If someone really, truly believes that equine fatalities resulting from endurance rides are unacceptable (literally, "can not be accepted"), that person MUST believe that we must stop having endurance rides. This is a case where you cannot say A without saying B. If you are asking if that *number* (ten annually) is acceptable, why that arbitrary number and no other choices? But then, how could I or any horseman answer that ten, or five, or one is "acceptable?" I think most of us would say that even one a decade is a tragedy that we must work to minimize, while being realistic enough to know that zero is an unreachable number. It's like some politician asking how many traffic deaths a year are acceptable (or how many casualties in Iraq are acceptable). I can see no purpose behind a "poll" like this other than to sensationalize a complex problem with a question that has no answer. I will not participate in this "poll" and I urge others to refuse to participate as well. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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