Virus opened this issue on Feb 26, 2002 ยท 24 posts
VirtualSite posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 8:29 AM
(1) I like the picture. It's got a nice style and a certain energy that works well. (2) I don't like bullfighting. It's barbaric and cruel, and to dance around it by saying "Well, it's their country" is ignoring the cruelty and devoiding one's responsibility to the essential truth of the matter. We sure didn't say "well, it's their country" when we chose to get involved in the internal affairs of places like Germany in the late 1930s -- but because this involves cruelty towards animals, we just don't seem to care as much, do we? I was taken to a bullfight last year during a business trip to Spain, and it took every fibre of my being not to express my disgust. It's not sport. It's not art. It's not "a dance of life and death", as my host tried to gamely explain. It's killing an animal for entertainment, and no matter how you dress it up and pretend otherwise, that's what it all boils down to.