Last time I checked worshiping meant to preserve and celebrate something.. not to destroy it..
I am not an animal lover or something like that but I believe killing an animal for entertainment and fun should be abolished... things like these really show how fucked up a culture can be that calls itself "modern" and "civilized" ... I don't understand how killing a living animal that can't really defend itself or doesn't even understand what is going on can be pleasurable or give people the feeling that they achieved something...
Last time I checked worshiping meant to preserve and celebrate something.. not to destroy it..
There is a difference in killing an animal with a bolt to the head and killing an animal with sharp spears and waiting for it to bleed to death after having chased it around town, putting it under unnecessary stress... I eat meat and always will eat meat but only if the method of killing the animal is swift and not to wait until it bleeds out while people are cheering around and gaining amusement from it.
Let's be honest here, there is nothing "fair" about bullfighting (or "toreo"), the bull is pelted with spears, and worked up by a minor army before the "hero" comes in to battle him "fairly" (with a sword...).
Fair would be to send in the man naked and with no weapons against a bull that is completely healthy and not wounded.
Then you'd see your "genetic superiority".
I'm not barking at toreo as a tradition (ritual sacrifice, as you put it), the only thing that got me was the fact that you wrote that there is anything fair about it.
sigh.
Nice video.
Ask yourself.. do you want to be reincarnated as an industrial chicken or as a bull. And yes, some of you fuckers are coming back as chickens.
I understand that it may seem mean to make these bulls "fight". But you havent understood the "fight". There is nothing modern or civilized about the Torero, its simple and ancient worship of the bull. There is no "fun" for the man in the suit of lights, and there is no fun for the crowd. "Entertainment" doesn't always equal fun. They come to see the killing of the bull. An animal bred for almost 20,000 years to fight, bravely and honourably, untill the death. And that is just in its modern form. This animal will never try to sneak attack, or to run away. It is the most noble of all animals. The crowd come to see how a man uses his WILL to dominate this animal, and to have confirmed for them that although men cheat and steal and backstab, purity of purpose and will still excist.
As to "doesn't even understand", the bull understands: It is bred, raised and trained to fight. It is IN the ring because it is the of the BEST genetic material, it LIVES to fight. If the bull does NOT fight, you cannot MAKE it fight. If the bull refuses to fight, it is taken from the ring.
"Can't really defend itself" ??!! There is no Torero alive today without many scars where he has lost a match against a great bull. We remember the names of ALL the great fighters in my culture: Both men AND bulls.
How do you think the genes are past on? The bravest and strongest bulls are not killed, once they have fought and proved how great they are, they become stud bulls for the next generation: These animals are not captured from the wild and baited to fight, nor are they hunted with technology:
One man puts his very LIFE on the line: His purpose is not simply to KILL: He stands in front of the bull and gets the BEST from that bull, he builds that bull up, he builds it up and gets the best from it, he bends and shapes the bull, giving it encouragement, and bravery, and keeping things fair: if he makes one mistake, the bull will kill him, and the bull knows this also.
These animals are kept in the best manner untill they are ready to fight, they live at extraordinary expense. I would rather be kept in such condition, the very lap of luxury, untill the day came that I gave my ALL to show how great I was, than to live as the rest of the taurine population does: Kept in the bare legal minimum of coditions, fed on offal and other things unnatural to a bovine, untill I was slain with no chance to fight for my life.
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Watched it again: was saddened again for those particular animals: no good matador would do that to a bull: removing the horn-tips is despicaple practise, good torero refuses to fight such an animal, robbed of his weapons: as the lady said, they cannot fight ever remotely once their hornsize it altered: their balance and reach is altered and the centre of the "shaved" horn is soft tissue not horn, those are not bulls anymore than heiffers are: the mounted-combat was bulls is also not a real faena ever, its ugly:
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