Bullfighting is it fair?

Question

Given the Bullfighter is armed with a sword.....should the bull be given an Uzi machine gun to even up the contest?

Answer 1

how can it be fair when the bull never wins??? the fighters hide behind big barriers when it gets too close and when the fighter gets tired they change like a tag team. Does the bull have all his little bull friends in a line, i think not! Does 'he' have a little corner to run to to be safe....noooooo!

i say if you wont ban it, which it shud be haven't we had enough of open cruelty, then have a one on one fight if the bull avoids the mattador then it wins...oh and the bull shud get points too for stamping on the guy....

Answer 2

I don't really know if it is fair per se. If the bull was supposed to kill the guy 50% of the time then nobody would do it. I don't think a human is designed to be able to kill large animals with their bare hands - humans are designed to make spears and bows and swords for hunting and killing animals. Skilled bullfighters use short daggars rather then swords, only trainees use long blades. The bull is butched and sold as meat afterwards - the fight is not just a spectacle it also provides meat for people to eat.

I do not see how bullfighting can be considered barbaric by people who eat meat. The bulls are kept in excellent conditions all their lives and are at least killed by a man who is essentially a hunter and they can fight back. All over this continent tens of thousands of animals are kept in crowded contitions, fattened up and then slaughtered in sterile rooms by having a metal bolt rammed through their brain because this is thought to be a "more humane death". My god! I would rather be flayed alive than be slaughtered in such a mechanical souless manner. Death is a part of life and at least in the bullfight death is aknowledged and seen - in societies that claim to be more civilised we have no respect for death and try to make it is unnaturally painelss and sterile as possible.
I have been a vegetarian for over ten years because I think it is cowardly and degrading towards animals (and life in general) to eat something that I would not be prepared to kill for myself.

Bullfighting is a remnant from an earlier age when people respected life and death and did not try to hide and degrade the basic principle of "kill or be killed" that a carnivore food chain relies upon. Personally I would rather be a bull fighter than work in a slaughterhouse

Answer 3

Bull fighting is no longer anything to do with fairness - if it ever was.

It is now the ritualistic killing of an animal, referencing back to archaic and traditional displays of masculinity.

It is now the outmoded and brutal slaying of an animal for the purposes of theatrical entertainment.

In other cultures at at different times similar brutal activities have had, or still do have, an important place in the typical traditions: c*ck-fighting; badger-baiting; fox-hunting; bear-baiting; dog-fighting, etc. and of course - boxing and its derivatives (Ok - I accept this may be said to at least be 'fair' if two idiots want to get into a small ring and beat the living-daylights out of each other for other folks pleasure! But at least think about that for a moment!).

In the US where dog fighting is still pretty commmon - although an 'underground' entertainment - the practice is arguably even more brutal and disgusting than bull-fighting.

In Latin America C*ck-fighting is still a regular activity -

...and in both these later cases that added morally questionable activity of gambling is added into the mix! (Not much point in betting on the result of a bull-fight as the winner is too prdicatable - although it always a turn-up for the books when a matador gets gored.)

Many cultures have morally questionable practices - the Spanish love of Bull-fighting is still open and surprisingly popular - compared with the more clandestine activities mentioned above.

Man has a primitive element in his genetic make-up and we are regularly reminded of how quickly our sentient and 'advanced' species can quickly revert to type and begin to treat other humans, as well as animals and other living things with total disregard.

Bull fighting is a high profile, out-in-the-open activity - against which there is a gradually increasing wave of outcry that is gladly gathering pace. It is not and never has been 'fair' and that is really not the point.

But it is worth anyone thinking about what makes it unfair - or what makes it morally unacceptable. I guess the pain, terror and torture that an animal is put through is the key to what upsets most people? As a creature Man emplys his intellectual and technological supremacy to inflict damage and destruction on many life-forms daily and without most folks turning an hair

It would be a great step forrward for Mankind - towards true evolutionary development when all Men accept that all forms of life are sacred and they begin to treat them as such.

Answer 4

The bullfighter has only ONE sword, the bull has TWO horns,
Is it "fair" to the bullfighter?

Answer 5

Absolutely not! It is animal cruelty....and the people that buy tickets to go see a bullfight are just as low as the bullfighter himself.

Answer 6

its not fair if you are the bull !seriously bullfighting belongs in the dark ages and im afraid that tourists who go to see this awful spectacle are only adding to the problem

Answer 7

What nonsense. Bullfighting IS fair - and the bulls love it!

Answer 8

Of course it's not fair, it's not supposed to be. The bull never leaves the ring victorious. The second part of your question is just to stupid to warrant a reply.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

well it depends where you live, in spain, the bull gets killed, in portugal the bandieras get hooked in the layer of fat on the bull, so it wont die, and in america, they use velcro, so noone gets hurt :D i dont think its fair, but i think the bull has just a good chance of killing the matador as the matador has of killing it, those horns are sharp