Beware of trainers who rely on false dichotomies to try to justify their methods. Especially when they’re doing so to try to convince clients that harshness is the only option. | Milestone Equestrian

False dichotomies and how people use this logical fallacy to justify their mistreatment of animals. To be honest, I find this one especially triggering because it is consistently a logical fallacy that I see applied by people who are behaving abusively. I’ve been in a number of emotionally abusive relationships in the past and every single time one of my partners needed to justify mistreating me, they would create a false dichotomy to justify their own behaviour and flip the blame onto me. It is