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View Poll Results: Do you support a ban on bullfighting?
So after seeing the picture of Julio Aparicio being gored recently I thought what better place to talk about bullfighting than good ol' PF?
I've seen bullfights in Seville and it's a fascinating experience. Before anything happens everybody in the stadium knows the bull is going to die, no matter what. The trick is finding out exactly how the bull will die - with strength, courage, and putting up a good fight or will it die an average death. The other trick is seeing the courage of the matador. They place themselves in death's path, and the nearer to death they come, and the more gracefully they face death, the better. It's quite a spectacle. My position is that it would be a shame to ban the sport (or whatever you want to call it) in spite of its obvious cruelty. The bull who gored Julio will probably have parts go up in a museum in a perverse but apparently honest form of honor.
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I guess I don't really care, but if I had to choose, I'd probably go with ban it. A guy stands in a ring and stabs an animal to death? Weeee... seems boring to me. Will the bull die with strength and courage? Who cares, it's an animal. It will do what it's instincts do. It can't really think outside the box. And the matador having courage? Pfft. You want courage, go look at a policeman, a firefighter, a soldier. These people do dangerous things all the time, but they don't do it for a crowd, they do it because they have real courage.
However, in my eternal hatred for all things PETA, I think I will recant my previous position of ban it and change it to support!
edit: because of my flip floppery, I will vote Pinko Commie
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I voted to "ban it" I always root for The Bull, when I see pictures of the poor old Bull standing there with 5 or 6 knives or whatever they are sticking out of him, with blood dripping all over his body I pray to God the Bull gets the chance to gore the living ***** out of the savage animal bastard Matador, hopefull several times in The groin.
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Kneel 20 feet in front of a charging bull with only a cape to defend you and then get back to me. When you see that guy or girl crossing themselves then you get a sense of what they're facing.
Kneel 20 feet in front of a charging bull with only a cape to defend you and then get back to me. When you see that guy or girl crossing themselves then you get a sense of what they're facing.
Is the look on his face any different than the look on the face of the pit bull with his front leg half-torn off and left eye hanging out of it's socket just before his opponent makes the final lunge?
It's a moot question since bull fighting isn't legal in The United States and doesn't take place in The United States. I'd say, however, if you're going to try legalizing bullfighting here you'd be hard put to justify outlawing dog fighting because there's really no difference at all, is there? Other than the dogs are at least fighting a much more balanced and fair fight.
It's quite a spectacle. My position is that it would be a shame to ban the sport (or whatever you want to call it) in spite of its obvious cruelty.
I'm sure you have a well thought out logical basis to justisfy a cruel "sport's" continuation and at the same time point out that you would even call it a "shame" to have to stop it.
Imagine an old retired Matador who has killed hundreds of Bulls and has trophys hanging all over his walls then as he finally takes his last breath and dies he is buried with his sword laying beside him and he is covered with his Red Cape, OH Lay,
After this a$s hole makes his trip through the Tunnel and enters the kingdom of heaven he is happy as a pig in
***** he made it and his Sword came with him, I'm in heaven he says, then he finds out that God Is A F-cking Bull.
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Is the look on his face any different than the look on the face of the pit bull with his front leg half-torn off and left eye hanging out of it's socket just before his opponent makes the final lunge?
Yes, obviously. And yes, it does suck to watch the bull die. Especially when the Matador misses the spinal cord.
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Originally Posted by Mrs.PatsFanInVa
It's a moot question since bull fighting isn't legal in The United States and doesn't take place in The United States. I'd say, however, if you're going to try legalizing bullfighting here you'd be hard put to justify outlawing dog fighting because there's really no difference at all, is there? Other than the dogs are at least fighting a much more balanced and fair fight.
Talking about Spain and Mexico, not that the US or the PF has any real influence in this matter. Yes, it is admittedly moot.
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After this a$s hole makes his trip through the Tunnel and enters the kingdom of heaven he is happy as a pig in
***** he made it and his Sword came with him, I'm in heaven he says, then he finds out that God Is A F-cking Bull.
So after seeing the picture of Julio Aparicio being gored recently I thought what better place to talk about bullfighting than good ol' PF?
I've seen bullfights in Seville and it's a fascinating experience. Before anything happens everybody in the stadium knows the bull is going to die, no matter what. The trick is finding out exactly how the bull will die - with strength, courage, and putting up a good fight or will it die an average death. The other trick is seeing the courage of the matador. They place themselves in death's path, and the nearer to death they come, and the more gracefully they face death, the better. It's quite a spectacle. My position is that it would be a shame to ban the sport (or whatever you want to call it) in spite of its obvious cruelty. The bull who gored Julio will probably have parts go up in a museum in a perverse but apparently honest form of honor.
Perverse can be honor? In what world?
Here's the only way a human killing another animal can be honorable: Whoever killed it must eat it or make sure someone else does. This is a sick sport and there is no honor in killing an animal if it isn't life and death or for food, clothing or shelter, unless it's a mosquito and it's sucking the blood out of my arm.
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