Austyboo ^_^ said:
Seriously, why is it so important to you that you go through all of these mental gymnastics to try to ignore about 4 or 5 different perspectives disagreeing with you. Myself, Amontadillo, Weaver and Duh are all over the political, philosophical and cultural* spectrum, don't make the mistake of thinking this is just some one-sided liberal thing.
Firstly, I'm not American. I don't have an aversion to liberal politics. In fact I am heavily inter twinned with liberal politics. My family voted PS and I too would vote PS if I was still in Portugal for the elections. If I go any more left I would be voting PCP which is the communist party.
My choice in supporting bullfighting has and never will be about supporting conservatism in any way. My decision is purely on my personal beliefs: watching bullfights in person with my grandad when I was small is one of my fondest memories. There is zero politics in this, and I understand that between people my age I am very much in the minority. It's a very south, ribatejo region thing. My position on this matter could be derived entirely from the fact that because of how close my family lived near ribatejo when I was young that I was very much involved in the culture compared to up in the north where there is basically zero bullfighting.
Let me reiterate, I understand why you would completely hate bullfighting. I also feel like your views are purely painted by the negatives of it and you fail to see why people watch it. It's not to do with the gore. We don't particularly feel delight at the fact that we're killing the bull. I've always felt sad at the end of every single bullfight, especially if the bull fought hard throughout.