Quote Originally Posted by j_h_smith View Post
Don't get me started on this animal cruelty thing. Unless you live in a bubble, you contribute to animal cruelty everyday of your life. You just don't see it. But for most people, as long as they don't see the cruelty, they don't care.

Jim Smith
Just playing devil's advocate, but regardless of animal cruelty elsewhere, that doesn't make this instance of animal cruelty any different. Animal cruelty is animal cruelty. We shouldn't try to justify one instance of it because there are other instances of it. But I digress, probably starting to get OT.

As for the ban, I have mixed feelings. On the one hand I feel it is animal cruelty. You're essentially torturing the animal over the course of a period of time until it dies.

On the other hand, I can appreciate the cultural traditions that come with it.

I could be in favor of some compromise, where maybe after the bull has been injured a certain number of times, it is either instantly and humanely killed to end its suffering, or maybe its taken out of the ring, bandaged, and put out to pasture. I'm not sure what the answer is.