Did the bull-killer Victor Barrio deserve a “hero’s send-off” at his funeral? Given that the “duel” with the bull is heavily rigged in the human’s favour, and no one put him in the firing line, probably not. The guy who was killed during this year’s bull-running in Pamplona didn’t get a hero’s send-off.
But need we be bothered by any of this? Probably not. Messing about with bulls might be part of Spain’s cultural and artistic heritage but it doesn’t go on anywhere else in the EU. Which means that some Eurocrat has worked out how to abolish it in the name of harmony and homogenization and grey EU dullness, and the plan is whipped out of its drawer every time Spain goes to the EU with its hand out after some economic catastrophe just in case . . .
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