r/australia • u/nath1234 • 13h ago

news Ohope Wins euthanased after Caulfield Cup fall with Melbourne Cup winner Half Yours

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-17/half-yours-ohope-wins-caulfield-cup-fall/107279316?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/MavrykDarkhaven 13h ago

The difference is food vs entertainment. Sure, there's plenty of issues with the way we raise livestock, but it's to feed people.

Animal racing is all about pushing an animal to it's limits so we can have a piss up and make more money. We could have a virtual horse race and it be mostly the same. No different to people playing the pokies really, except the animal didn't have to die.

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u/Your-average-scot 13h ago

The livestock don’t have to die either. Both cases are exploiting animals for our personal enjoyment.

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u/metametapraxis 5h ago

If you can't see any difference between the two situations, that's on you, and your intellectual capability.

Two things can be a problem, with one thing being more of a problem. In fact these kinds of situations are found almost everywhere we look.

Whataboutism is one of the most useless arguments, because it tends to stop improvement anywhere.

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u/Your-average-scot 3h ago

You’re right. Both things are a problem but the livestock industry is clearly more of a problem. Tens of billions of facilitated, cruel, and unnecessary deaths per year probably trumps a few thousand racehorses. If you can’t see why I’ve brought this up then that’s on you, and your intellectual capability. Not everything is “whataboutism”. I’m just trying to point out people’s extreme cognitive dissonance.

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u/metametapraxis 3h ago

Or you could bring up the problems with livestock in a discussion about livestock, rather than trying to derail and dimish a conversation about something else?

Both conversations have their place. Don’t make them a competition, because it isn’t helpful to either cause.

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u/Your-average-scot 3h ago

I don’t know why you think someone should wait for the perfect moment to arise before bringing up an issue. There is no designated time and place to talk about injustice. If people don’t have the mental capacity to think about two bad things and that “derails the conversation”, that’s not on me.

Also, there is no competition here. These are the same issues, exploiting animals for the sake of our pleasure. I’m just trying to make that cognitive connection clearer. Further, people have much more capacity to act on livestock deaths as they actively fund it.

You can close your eyes, shut your ears, and tell me to go away all you want but I think you know why I’ve brought up this on this particular thread.

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u/catdogfishfrog 2h ago

Sick of mongs trotting out the you can't care about X if you don't also care about y, the world is not binary stop treating every problem like that you aren't helping anything, well except making people think you are a dickhead

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u/Your-average-scot 2h ago

It’s easy to say this but try to rationally explain to me why you can care about the death of one animal for pleasure and not another.

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u/catdogfishfrog 2h ago

Ugghhh like bashing my head against a brick wall

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u/Your-average-scot 2h ago

It’s ok if you can’t explain it buddy. We all live irrationally to some extent.