Hello: certainly Nordic peoples despise bullfighting. It's proper of underdeveloped countries. What have they to say about two human beings on a ring striking each other, an English invention. Most of boxers reach their fifties, if the do at all, with a deformed face or half idiots. I said human beings. Are we to worry about animals in the ruedo in the face of such events as those?
I'm fond of cats, small and big (felines), fond of birds, fond of horses. Yes. But we live in a era that has made a religion of animal care, thanks first to biologists, then to commerce. Can animals be put above man? In the 19th we were antropocentric, man at the center of all things. The equation has now reversed sign. We are no longer masters of anything, least of all, of animals. As in so many things, this is only the valley after the summit, one extreme after the opposite one. Beginning with the cinema, children are taught to love animals, a habit as old as civilization, but now exaggerated above all bounds. Do not kill sharks, preserve the crocodiles! Both of them notorious plagues, occasionally making their prey in humans. It is Plutarch who says:
I'm fond of cats, small and big (felines), fond of birds, fond of horses. Yes. But we live in a era that has made a religion of animal care, thanks first to biologists, then to commerce. Can animals be put above man? In the 19th we were antropocentric, man at the center of all things. The equation has now reversed sign. We are no longer masters of anything, least of all, of animals. As in so many things, this is only the valley after the summit, one extreme after the opposite one. Beginning with the cinema, children are taught to love animals, a habit as old as civilization, but now exaggerated above all bounds. Do not kill sharks, preserve the crocodiles! Both of them notorious plagues, occasionally making their prey in humans. It is Plutarch who says:
On seeing certain wealthy foreigners in Rome carrying puppies and young monkeys about in their bosoms and fondling them, Caesar asked, we are told, if the women in their country did not bear children, thus in right princely fashion rebuking those who squander on animals that proneness to love and loving affection which is ours by nature, and which is due only to our fellow-men.
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