Ricardo -> RE: What's your opinion about bullfighting? (May 8 2010 14:10:10)
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Since a kid I have always tried to think logically about this stuff. Try to see both angles, and even try to imagine what it is like to BE the animal that is gonna get killed or eaten. It can be horrifying and heartbreaking to think about. After a lot of thought I came to realize, we may be humans, but we are still animals. Animals born of mother earth the same as the rest. We share the same fate one and all: birth, reproduction (optional good part of life), suffering (to some degree or other. Hopefully short life span in this sense is better), and death. And animals use other animals and plants all the time, in order to live and survive. Plants sometimes feed on animals too. And yeah in every case sorry, you DON"T want be a gazelle running from a lion in africa anymore then you would want to be a kentucky fried chicken. And lets not even approach the horrors of the insect world. Parasites, oh so sad to kill them when the just want food for their babies? So we are humans born of earth with bigger brains so we can produce plastic for mother earth since it does not appear naturally in supernovae. And after we have produced enough we will become extinct like all the rest. Meanwhile we can glorify a bull for giving it's life for us to eat in fancy artistic display, and even give it special fighting chance. No creature in nature that is out to consume our flesh or use us for it's own needs would do the same for us. So, at least since plastic is NOT biodegradable we can pretend that we are some how more important than other living things spawned from this little planet. Ricardo
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