On Sunday morning, I was with a couple hundred people to the sales-an insignificant number given the commitment of the organizers - wrapping up a banner that read: TORTURE IS NOT CULTURE. Of course not, not only culture but is not connected with the most sordid of human traditions, which enjoys the cruelty and mistreatment of innocent creatures.
Some argue the anachronism of bullfighting by a misinterpretation of the tradition. If we stand by in customs of the past, would be justified racism (blacks had no souls), violence against women (they are supposed to lower the dignity of male) or female circumcision, to name three aberrations that appear black indelible record of humanity.
Cruelty to animals is also part of that black history, which should be ashamed. Given that there is no unnecessary cruelty to rely on tradition, but use the criteria of compassion and universal values. Does this mean that we give to serve animals? I'm not asking much, but we deal with compassion to those beings that are going to sacrifice on our behalf. The need for food, as guinea pigs for certain research irreplaceable ... Humans have an unpayable debt of gratitude to the animals that at least requires us to monitor their suffering as little as possible.
Torture is neither culture nor art can be disguised. It is simply incompatible with modern society. Deserve not only reject the runs (particularly serious for torturing to death mammals feel pain like us) but any kind of cruelty against animals free. Enter here the murder case of a facility in Havana Cáceres Clearance where the artist of the moment decided to drive a thousand crickets on a panel to show his agony.
A visitor asked him to stop this senseless cruelty and self-conscious because of the impotence of the organizers who did not want to be labeled as censors, he decided to spray insecticide crickets to stop suffering. For the artist, "the woman acted like a Taliban, hindering the creative and cultural freedoms, but I believe that these alleged creative freedoms have a limit: the gratuitous suffering, the senseless and unnecessary cruelty to a living being.
In short, respect for freedom of expression, yes, but within the framework of universal values. To a display of violence and sadism, is no place for art.
