over the weekend I took a boat tour of Cumberland Island, Georgia. A long island owned partly by the Carnegies, which has wild horses on it. Lots of horses, short life spans from eating "salt grass", lots of inbreeding.
Watching the horses gallop around, we came upon one on the shore. . . a retarded horse. The tour guide said that this horse has been on the beach for 3 or 4 days, and that it was barely alive. It sat by itself on the beach, and it would be there until it died. No one removed the horse from the fields. . . the horse wandered away slowly over time when the others moved on. Survival of the fittest.
It's sad, what I would have given to put the horse out of its misery. People of course, you can't just kill or remove from society by force. I would most generously give to charities that worked to take care of the retarded and mentally handicapped. I believe that all life is precious, even that of a retarded person. That being said, I would never ever ever use force to make another person pay against their will to these types of organizations. I would most likely lobby my neighbors to do so.