You’d have to ask a real expert, I’m more of what you’d call an armchair expert.
As I understand it, horses are a species that can be domesticated. That means with relatively benign actions (intensives with food, corrections with hitting with a paddle or small whip) the animal can be made to do what you want it to do. And usually once a horse is domesticated, they will stay that way and won’t become aggressive. However this isn’t universal, not all equine species can be domesticated, it’s just that humans only keep the most useful around. We’ve also done so for so long, selective breeding is probably a huge factor in this.
Horses can be dangerous as well, but far less so than bears. A horse can throw a human, kick or step on them, but usually that’s not enough to kill someone. Bears can do anything a horse can and on top of that they are usually bigger, have sharp teeth and sharp claws.
Another aspect is probably that horses are prey animals where bears are predators and pretty high up in the food chain at that. Bears probably hunted humans, before humans invented stuff like fences and fire and stuff.
Bears can’t be domesticated, they can only be scared so much they will obey. The techniques used are usually very brutal, with a significant amount of animals not even surviving the process. They won’t ever truly obey, only when they are afraid. So they will be abused continually, to keep them afraid. And even then, when the animal sees an opportunity to strike back or see something as prey, they will act upon that instinct.
But in the end I personally don’t think humans have the right to domesticate any kind of animal and raising something living with the express purpose of using/abusing/consuming them is morally incorrect. So in that case there is no difference between a horse and a bear. But from my experience with people who hold horses these days, they are more like pets, being loved and cared for rather than working animals. So it is a spectrum and bears are more on very much not OK side as compared to horses.
You’d have to ask a real expert, I’m more of what you’d call an armchair expert.
As I understand it, horses are a species that can be domesticated. That means with relatively benign actions (intensives with food, corrections with hitting with a paddle or small whip) the animal can be made to do what you want it to do. And usually once a horse is domesticated, they will stay that way and won’t become aggressive. However this isn’t universal, not all equine species can be domesticated, it’s just that humans only keep the most useful around. We’ve also done so for so long, selective breeding is probably a huge factor in this. Horses can be dangerous as well, but far less so than bears. A horse can throw a human, kick or step on them, but usually that’s not enough to kill someone. Bears can do anything a horse can and on top of that they are usually bigger, have sharp teeth and sharp claws. Another aspect is probably that horses are prey animals where bears are predators and pretty high up in the food chain at that. Bears probably hunted humans, before humans invented stuff like fences and fire and stuff.
Bears can’t be domesticated, they can only be scared so much they will obey. The techniques used are usually very brutal, with a significant amount of animals not even surviving the process. They won’t ever truly obey, only when they are afraid. So they will be abused continually, to keep them afraid. And even then, when the animal sees an opportunity to strike back or see something as prey, they will act upon that instinct.
But in the end I personally don’t think humans have the right to domesticate any kind of animal and raising something living with the express purpose of using/abusing/consuming them is morally incorrect. So in that case there is no difference between a horse and a bear. But from my experience with people who hold horses these days, they are more like pets, being loved and cared for rather than working animals. So it is a spectrum and bears are more on very much not OK side as compared to horses.