Either 1) the horse is sick, or 2) the water is sick, or 3) they're both fine and the horse just isn't thirsty.
Two pro-tips:
a) It's not usually #3.
b) #1 and #2 often co-present, cuz drinking sick water will make a horse sick.
Two pro-tips:
a) It's not usually #3.
b) #1 and #2 often co-present, cuz drinking sick water will make a horse sick.
Give that #1 & #2 -- co- or singly-presenting, are so vastly much more common, I'm always startled when people seem so confident that they're in a #3 situation.
It's always, how do I get these horses to drink this water. It's never, what might be making my horse sick, or what is it about this water that a healthy horse won't drink it?
And the question that I don't think I have ever seen asked even one time: how did I become the arbiter of what & when another sentient being drinks?
Never that.
But it's a good question to ask.
Never that.
But it's a good question to ask.
In conclusion, I think it's a metaphor that quite unintentionally answers the very question it proposes.
But it's an awkward answer.
Innit.
But it's an awkward answer.
Innit.
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