Anti-bullfighting activists fear that allowing a 10-year-old to engage in the bloody pastime could lead to a slippery slope (envisioned above).
Officials in the south of France are preventing a 10-year-old from engaging in organized bull-fighting, reports Time magazine.
Even though the boy, Michel LagravÈre Peniche, was slated to appear in a bloodless version of the traditionally gruesome bout, activists are using the controversy to draw attention to their anti-bullfighting campaign.
But bullfighting backers, like the mayor of the town where the 10-year-old boy lives, says the activists are being paternalistic spoil-sports:
“It’s seen here by most people as an injustice and a mean-spirited effort to impose one kind of thinking on attitudes and events rooted in tradition,” he said.
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