Comments on: Preteen killer acclaimed in Mexico

By: mico

mico — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:43:18 +0000

Marcos: What do you think “matador” means? It is literally killer. From the verb matar, to kill. But I’m sure you know this, you seem spanish after all.

And I agree that it is wrong – on many levels.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:48:43 +0000

I think Jorge is absolutly right, it’s about time that someone would point out this view of this
kind of subject.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:15:53 +0000

Oops, ignore the above comment. Most people believe that murder is only the unrightful and intentional killing of a human by a human.

That’s what you get for posting while sick…

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:14:08 +0000

I think you should realize that most people don’t believe murder is the unrightful killing of a human.

By: Marcos Dione

Marcos Dione — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:54:33 +0000

I think `killer´ was not a very fortunate translation. `matador´ would have done the job.

By: koke

koke — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:09:00 +0000

It’s in the news today in Spain. The new sensation in Mexico is a 9 year old bullfighter [Spanish].

Well, bullfighting is a well-established tradition in Spain and some american countries, but after all it’s still murdering. The UNESCO has stated that bullfighting is torturing and killing animals in public.

If the Rigths of Child convention says:

Article 83
[...]
3. States Parties shall refrain from recruiting any person who has not attained the age of fifteen years into their armed forces. In recruiting among those persons who have attained the age of fifteen years but who have not attained the age of eighteen years, States Parties shall endeavour to give priority to those who are oldest.

Why the hell is accepted and not prosecuted a 9 year old kid killing innocent bulls? OK, let’s say human lifes are more valuable for us than bulls lifes. But anyway, IIRC the point of this convention with respect to intervention of children in armed conflicts was not the fact of killing human beings, but the psychological consequences in the child caused by becoming a murderer at an early age. From this perspective, children should be protected to be killers, no matter if they kill a man, another kid, a bull or a cat.

By the way, I feel ashamed to live in a country were not only is legal to kill animals, but people pays to watch and cheer it.