RE: On Moral Authorities
November 18, 2016 at 10:23 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 10:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
All societies have examples of batshit laws. Used to be you had to disassemble your motor buggy and hide it in a bush lest you scared the ponies.
I've always wondered if it was actually frightened -horses- that this law seeked to protect.....or if they were a convenient scapegoat for frightened humans whose pleasant picture of the world was upset by carts that were pulled through the either by nothing, lol. Similar to the goatboiling law. What was the effect that seeing that -had- on whomever made it a stricture? What did it make them think of, what was the source of revulsion? Also, who -did- that, who boiled goats in their mothers milk?
I've always wondered if it was actually frightened -horses- that this law seeked to protect.....or if they were a convenient scapegoat for frightened humans whose pleasant picture of the world was upset by carts that were pulled through the either by nothing, lol. Similar to the goatboiling law. What was the effect that seeing that -had- on whomever made it a stricture? What did it make them think of, what was the source of revulsion? Also, who -did- that, who boiled goats in their mothers milk?
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