You May Think I'm Crazy, Drunk And Stoned, But I Don't Wanna Be Messed Up Alone

Mood: Sleepy McGee, as per the usual
Watching: Resident Evil:EXTINCTION. Oh Ali Larter, how your acting outside of Heroes blows....

And now, the continuing saga of the Chuck....

Question 2: Let us assume a fully grown, completely health Clydesdale horse has his hooves shackled to the ground while his head is held in place with thick rope. He is conscious and standing upright, but completely immobile. And let us assume that - for some reason- every political prisoner on earth (as cited by Amnesty International) will be released from captivity if you can kick this horse to death in less than twenty minutes. You are allowed to wear steel toe boots. Would you attempt to do this?

Answer: No way in hell. Now, while the majority of my reasoning behind this has to do with that fact that that's cruelty to animals and I'm kind of against that, I do have other reasons. Those political prisoners are in prison because they willing got involved in whatever the hell it was that got them thrown into a foreign prison. They woke up in the morning and said "Fuck yeah, today's the day I go do something noble/stupid/suicidal for my countrymen." These people had the freedom to choose their fate, and probably went into it knowing full well that the consequences of their actions might be some time in a prison (or a lot of time). Now, granted, I'm sure some of these political prisoners have been kept unjustly, but that poor horse is not the reason why there's a communications breakdown between those nations particular governing bodies. That horse was just randomly plucked from some farm/racetrack/glue factory and shackled.

Granted, some of these political prisoners are in prison for insane reasons that have more to do with that country's government than anything else. But, again, that horse didn't fuck up your government. It's a horse. I'd rather put on steel toes and kick a political prisoner to death in twenty minutes to save all the other ones than that poor bastard horse.

Also, it'd take a hell of a lot more time to kick a horse to death than twenty minutes, those fuckers are BIG.