.....what do u think of bull-fighting? Isn't it cruel? I mean confronting the poor creatures til they get mad and stuff, and why even do it when in most cases u end up hurt, at times even getting killed???? Any animal activists out there?
2006-09-04 06:33:15 · 17 answers · asked by Georgina 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Please understand, I'm not defending the "art" or "sport" of bullfighting. I'm discussing the "right" of one group of people or culture to tell another one how to live.
Right now, many people and cultures across the world are saying that the US is wrong to be fighting in Iraq and that we should leave them and their culture alone. The US (at least it's government) thinks it's fighting terrorism and is within it's rights. I think that to some degree you have a "somewhat" analogous case here. I believe the Spanish would tell you that this is a time honored part of their culture and that you should mind your own business. I think they might point to the "sport" of rodeo and say "They might not be killed but isn't rodeo cruelty to animals also?".
By the way, have you ever been to a bullfight? I'm betting you probably have not. You probably consider a bullfight to be barbaric and beneath you. Sometime around 1965, I went to one (and only one) when I was nine and living in Sevilla (or Seville, Spain to english speakers). My parents took me not because it was a bullfight but because it was an historic event. El Cordobes, the famous spanish matador of the 60's, was fighting that day.
In those days, I was told that if the bull "won" (in other words, gored the matador so badly he couldn't continue) the bull went free and was put to stud. Did you know that (at least in those days) the dead bull was butchered and given to a local orphanage for food. Food which was pobably badly needed by the orphanage.
To the Spanish, bullfighting is a lot like boxing is to other countries from the point of view that it is an occupation that allows a poor person a chance to climb out of poverty and make a better life for themselves.
So believe it or not, I agree with your opinion of bullfighting. However, I just wanted to point out that there are some redeeming aspects and I wanted to point out that it's not our right to tell another culture what to do. If bullfighting is going to stop, it should be the Spanish or hispanic/latino cultures that decide to do it and not be something that is forced on them by other people and cultures who think they know what's best.
2006-09-04 07:10:38 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritual but not religious 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I spent a few years in teh south of France with my mother when i was only a little girl. It was customary to attend bull fighting so mum took me. It was teh worst thing i had ever seen in my life. I ran out screaming and crying because the bull was running with some kind of an arow planted in its back. I had nightmares for years and can still see it vividly as i write this. There are petitions on line against bull fighting and i make a point of signing them all because, to me, it is just sheer viciousness and should have been banned a long time ago.
2006-09-04 06:38:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't want to sound horrible but anyone who drives any animal insane like they do in those bullrings with those defenceless bulls deserve to be hurt, how many of us would want to be put in the same position until we can take no more and just lose it completely, bull fighting is one of the most barbaric sports in the world and the sooner it ends the better all round.
2006-09-04 11:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should disgust any civilized person and should have been outlawed around the world long ago.
Come on, Spain, get with the program.
OH, and as for that 'feeding the poor with the meat' thing, there is a HUGE difference between killing an animal for food...(BOOM/SMACK-over-and-done) and torturing some poor creature for hours as it suffers first. That's wrong, and people that do that will end up in hell where they belong.
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2006-09-04 06:41:37 · answer #4 · answered by Peachy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its absolutely repulsive. Why should men play 'God' at each and every chance they get? Live those poor animals without turning them into blood sucking creatures driven into madness. Would they do it to their children too?
2006-09-04 07:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by FairyQueen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's cruel and uneccessary - but it's a part of spanish culture, if you go to spain and ask the people there who endorse it they see the fight as a beautiful thing, and the animal as honorable its like authentic spanish dancing is beautiful even to us. It's hard but i think in order to fully fight against something, you have to understand it.
2006-09-04 06:38:46 · answer #6 · answered by Sunny 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Put the bull and the bullfighter in the ring together--both unarmed.
2006-09-04 09:46:54 · answer #7 · answered by RG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always support the bull, if I see a bull toss one of the picadors or whoever, I say good.
2006-09-04 06:39:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I fail to see how killing an animal can be considered entertainment, or a sport as far as that goes.
2006-09-04 06:39:12 · answer #9 · answered by bubu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is one of the sickest things, people who participate in this "sport" should be stuck in a bullring with fifty angry bulls and be left to it.
2006-09-04 06:38:24 · answer #10 · answered by pebs 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋