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The Art of Bull Fighting
The corida has all the hall marks of a professional sport, but it is not an equal contest. The bull does not know why he is there until the blades start piercing his neck muscles. Even if he kills the matador, even if he killed every horse, every bull fighter, every person in the ring, he would still have no chance of winning. Some say that the problem with call it art isn't the death of the animal, but the fact that bull fighting cannot express original ideas. It could also be said that its levels of cruelty and violence prevent it from being an art.
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