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A poll taken last year by the BBVA Foundation found 77 per cent of Spaniards found the pastime “unacceptable”.

I suppose 'many' is a relative term. As a pure number of people I'm sure there are tens of thousands of Spaniards who love the 'sport'. But as a percentage of the population, yeah you're right - the large majority think it's stupid and want it gone.

Yeah, people don't often realize the bull is literally being tortured by getting stabbed. Then it's eventually killed. I mean if you're killing animals for food do it as humane as possible, but for a show? No.

Man, I love the EU.

Spaniard here

German username and uses the word Arschloch

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This is the world I want to live in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dmlze5UbUQ

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Fuck that. It should level up and get to pick improved armor and weapons and then go back to gore more asshole matadors.

Yes but most people absolutely hate it. And some parts of Spain forbid it already.

Apparently, only a minority of Spanish citizens actually support this caliber of animal cruelty. The rest of them have, thankfully, done the sane and compassionate thing and evolved past this barbarism and its excuses. Here's hoping that more people understand why this shit belongs in the dark ages with dogfighting, cockfights, and betta fish fighting.

its only fair the animal responds in kind.

They are tortured with hooked ribbons, called banderillas that just piece the skin in order to enrage them and "prove the skill and bravery" of the matador before they even start trying to kill the bull. A skilled matador can kill the bull quickly, but a poor one can require multiple stabs over 30 minutes or longer.

I went on a highschool trip to Spain, and a bullfight was one of the events. It was horrific. The matador was not skilled, and the poor bull died incredibly slowly and painfully. I'm actually getting a little choked up just recalling it.

I will assume this is not a troll question. Corridas follow a strict protocol and rules.

First, they get several men in the arena to evaluate the bull, the matador will tease him and other men incite him to complete his charges, so that he doesn't stay on the matador in the center. Fresh and not well evaluated, he could be a risk for the matador.

Second: picadors (horse back) pierce the bull and try to slice through his neck muscles, so that he can't raise his head no more, or not too much.

Then, the matador pitch some banderillas on its back.

To kill it, they use swords they get all the way in, then incite the bull to turn left and right so that the sword will cause additional internal damages.

When the bull finally falls, the matador cuts its ear as a trophy. Sometimes the bull is still agonizing.

I let you decide if that's torture, fair fight, or whatever justification they use to keep that tradition alive.

They are. I believe that, traditionally, they kill them.

It didn't. It was terrified, in horrible pain, bleeding out, and just trying to defend itself.

Morante has been open about his lifelong struggles with mental illness
“I have thought about death as a relief, but I can’t do it, I have a family and responsibility,” he has said.

Probably thought this was his grand finale.