No more bullfights of bulls,lets make them Stop!
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Here are ten reasons:
1.-"the bullfight of bulls is a sport"
The definition of sport according to ABRADES " physical activity, exerted like game or competition, whose practice supposes training and subjection to norms "; up to here we would agree. But, a competition sport is the one egalitarian fight between two rivals , and this condition is not fulfilled. The successive scandals by the afeitamiento of the bulls (to cut or to file the end of the horns to the bull so that its fight is less dangerous) or the investigations that has let see the way in that the bulls are prepared for the bullfight in toriles; they leave much to be desired an affirmation because the confrontation occurs between two rivals in equal conditions . Today a bullfight of bulls is a spectacle of deceit and falsification, where the males face an animal completely mined in their physical faculties by means of the fatigue and the pain.
2.-"the bulls are a tradition, and the traditions it is necessary to maintain them"
From when the vindications to the violence and the destruction are worthy of historical perpetuamiento. Traditions like the feminine ablation or the slavery - that persists today in day horrify to us... why not a cruel and sadista tradition like the celebration of the bulls. Because one is animals, beings robots for some, or means to the service of the human aims, for others. The traditions sustained in the violence and the annihilation do not do more than to perpetuate these worthy behaviors like of practice and pursuit: if we can kill an animal, why we will not be able to also kill our political enemy, or to all that against which our differences turn upside down. The traditions must be support of which it defines and it constructs to us , but also of which we hoped in the future. The tried rationality of our societies, and the pacific objective noble in the world, are threatened every time we let to this type of traditions be formativo foundation of the new generations.
3.-"the bullfights of bulls are an art"
The art is a process of creation and construction, that gives life, not the acquittal. As interpretation of a mental representation, some authors have defined to I goad like seducer , in as much denies absurd and the tragic thing of the human death, extending and humiliating the animalidad of the bull. The bull remembers to the man the anguish to him by limited of the its nature animal, and it projects in a simulated superiority devising instruments of torture and fighting to the bull with them through the different luck or you send of the bullfight. With it, the bullfigther represents the importance his own mortal condition, to his own condition animal. Nevertheless, as Hilda Salmerуn says " do not face bull nor bullfigther, but an animal against the arsenal of the bullfigther ". It destroys and it annihilates, in search of the longed for "immortality" that obtains ephemeral under the disguise of the fame, to leave by the great door and to award to the matador at the mercy of the ears and/or the tail of a poor animal that has been fantoche in the farce. This art does not construct nor gives value. Rather, it destroys all the enaltecedor of the art for the human life.
4.-"the bull dies with dignity"
The dignity is a value and a category constructed by the humans to symbolize things to us. But it is used here to describe from the perspective of the bull which the death simboliza/(rнa) for him . For an animal like the bull, the pain is the pain and the death is the death , are not worthy nor you infuriate. The death is the aim of its life. And while more express and of blow happens, better - at least, that would be for the humans an ideal death. For a bull the bullfight is the imminent death; because it is said or no, bull that steps on the sand finishes in the room of quartering (still the pardoned ones that after going away to the meadow the majority dies by the received wounds). Is worthy slow, painful, torturante, suffocating a death? A death in which a bull is forced to be put under the tortures of a team of sadists? That they say to love and to respect the bulls ? (I imagine that they love like a chimera and an ideal, if I do not explain the torture which they put under each unit in the sand). That is not dignity.
5.-"the bulls are culture"
In 1980, UNESCO, Maxima world-wide authority in the matter of culture, expressed its opinion on the matter: "tauromaquia is the malhadado and venal art to torture and to kill animals in public and according to rules. Traumatiza to the children and the sensible adults. It aggravates the state of the neurуpatas attracted by these spectacles. It denatures the relation between the man and the animal. In it, it constitutes a greater challenge to the moral, the education, science and the culture ". The culture understood according to ABRADES like " set of ways of life and customs, knowledge and degree of artistic, scientific, industrial development, at a time, social group, etc. "it will only be constructive and valid while it bets to give value to the human being, to transform it into a more sensible, more intelligent being, and more civilized. The cruelty that humiliates - to humans or animals and never destroys by the pain will be able to consider culture. Those will only be odiosas customs against the world and themselves. Even so, the AIT (Asoc. the International of Tauromaquia) has requested to the UNESCO that tauromaquia is considered part of the "Intangible Goods of the Patrimony of the Humanity". If the violence, the cruelty and the barbarism are considered "Patrimony of the Humanity", this request will be welcomed.
6.-"They are part of the religious tradition, that honors to the virgin and some saints"
This it is a very serious error. The church, in several opportunities, has condemned the celebration of celebrations in which animals torture themselves and kill. Pope Pнo V in 1567 promulgated one bula in which " he condemns these clumsy and bloody spectacles ", establishing pain of excomulgaciуn for clergymen, emperors, kings and cardinals who fomented these spectacles. In 1920 the secretary of the Vatican State, Gasparri cardinal declared that "the church continues condemning in high voice, as made Pope Pнo V, these bloody and shameful spectacles". Juan Pablo II , making a study of the Bible says that "the man, left the hands of God, is shared in common with all the living beings, as he appears in psalms 103 and 104, where does not become distinction between the men and the animals". Why the priests who promote the supervisory celebrations and the churches in charge of them, ignore these words of their leaders ? He will be by economic reasons, I think: " Powerful horseman is Don Dinero " (Quevedo).
7.-"Without run there would not be brave bull, this one would disappear"
The bull is an animal herbнvoro . Great part of its life consists of looking for grass to feed itself, and he is not brave but in the territorial fights, the fight by the reproduction and/or situations of danger. The bull artificially is caused so that it responds of aggressive way to the bullfigther. Chaste the brave one of the bulls genetically has been manipulated by the man so that their units are aggressive, as the milk cattles or of meat have manipulated themselves. In this case, that the celebration of the bulls is finished will mean the aim of the fierceness of the bull that economically is operated by the cattle ranches. It does not mean the aim of the bulls, because bulls more - or less brave they can occur in other subspecies of bulls.
8.-"the bull does not suffer"
Like any cefalizado animal and with a central nervous system, yes it feels: if we see a fly settle on the back of a bull, as soon as it perceives this one tries to frighten it. How will not feel a bull puya, banderillas or the sword? Or perhaps the bull tinkles and defecates in the bullfight, because it gives scenic panic him ? Worse if we often thought that in the bulls not only this one is tortured, the horses of rejoneadores and/or horsebreakers also fall wounded... and they also feel.
9.-"the brave bull was born for that"
The brave bull bred and was predetermined by the criadores for that destiny. It was a whim and a human will, moved by different interests for which the animal was means, which sealed his luck with that destiny. Neither God nor the mother country nor the tradition did of the brave bull what is. He was the man who manipulated it and he took it to the measurement of his desires. He is right to give life to an animal to clear it in a total act of pain and cruelty to it?
10.-"Whoever wants to see a bullfight can go to a bullring, who doesn't can stay at home"
It could be said the same about pedophilia : who wants to do it is free to do it, the others could look at another side and continue with their life.
The toro's seasons, the schools, and the "ganaderias" are financed with public money through donations, no paying taxes, subsides. A very important percent of the spanish people are against the bullfight (68.8 \% of them) wouldn't want their money given to such a cruel tradition.
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