On May 22, 5:21*pm, abelard wrote:


you get a longer life as fighting bull and you may
* * get reprieved and put out to stud if you do unusually well!

True. I forgot to point out that fighting bulls are indeed *bulls*,
not steers: a not insignificant factor when considered from the bull's
point of view.

One should also take into account the fact that these bulls have been
carefully bred for their homicidal quailties over a period of
centuries, and today are the bovine equivalents of Hannibal Lecter.
(True story: A Miura bull once charged a passing steam locomotive, hit
it broadside, and actually derailed the train in the process of
turning himself into hamburger.)