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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
... It is hard to guage how to respond in a thread on this topic, as it is almost inevitable that activists will have to express their views on this admittedly grim sport...
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If i may, Jim, one doesn't have to be an activist to recognize this era is past; one just has to introspect, i guess.
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... In perspective however, it is a profound tradition of Spain and Latin America...
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You forgot Portugal, for one; but even such countries where this 'sport' is traditional, are droping it, province by province, city by city.
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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
... and actually is quite similar to big game hunting it seems to me...
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... While obviously fatal to the bull, it is also dangerous and often fatal to the matadors and others in the ring, well over 500 human fatalities on record. The most recent was just last month.
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Bleeching the situation by citing that the bulfighter also dyes, is a joke; the ratio must be around one per one hundred thousand.
11th August 2016, 06:53 PM
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