Letters to the Editor
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Wires
I think that many people object to animals being used in events - circuses, races, fights - etc, where they are merely pawns, having their physical or psychological makeup and attributes used against them. Pits make great fight dogs because they are fiercely loyal, for instance, and terribly tenacious. I don't think NASCAR is an event that qualifies as it involves humans that have chosen to pursue that particular avenue for a career. I wonder how many steers and stallions would be interested in an event that requires a leather strap being pulled so tight that it pinches a very delicate nerve, causing the bucking and jumping. I don't think there would be many volunteers.
I think perhaps you are splitting hairs when you paraphrase the poster's statement "athletes repeatedly dying". I do believe that the writer was talking about each individual athlete dying...not the same one dying over and over again.
It seems to me that when someone does not have a very good argument, they begin to dissect the structure of sentences and word choices.
Essentially, I believe most of the posters here would like to see animals being treated humanely, being trained at an appropriate age by qualified individuals, and bred responsibly.
I believe it is the least we can do.