Why are we still so barbaric?

This is a photo of an event that took place the other day in Spain when a poor frightened uncomprehending beast, a creature of God, some would say, was tormented and harassed to the point it scaled the arena barrier and ran amock among the spectators to escape its tormentors. This is sport in the minds of millions of unregenerated people who think that all is permitted against animals and that they may be tormented at will for the entertainment of us humans, and the worse thing about this is that the law allows it in certain countries, Spain being foremost among them (Catalonia only recently outlawed it). Why oh why are we humans so cruel and so barbarous and so bloodthirsty? When I witness scenes like that I can't help being overwhelmed by a feeling of disgust and revulsion at the human race. And we think we're civilised! Harassing a poor defenceless animal for the entertainment and delectation of the masses and then when things go wrong we kill it of course. The animal cannot win: if it stays to confront its tormentors, it is cut down in the end, if it attempts to evade the unwelcome attentions of its would-be executioners, it is put down.

And look at this moron tugging at the bull's tail. What does he honestly hope to accomplish with that apart from getting his picture in the media? What he needs to come to his senses is a good kicking in the teeth! It seems there is no limit to human arrogance and presumptuousness. People create the circumstances whereby they hope to derive pleasure and excitement from watching a hapless animal being harassed to death, and then when something goes wrong and their fun is spoilt, they shit themselves in their panic to escape and the bull pays for it with its life.

Honestly, have we evolved at all in real terms?  Or do we still have deeply ingrained in us the ancient blood-lust? It seems that when we're not busy killing each other for one stupid reason or another, we make sport of killing animals and this time we don't even have to justify it with any reason other than that of entertainment. We're a pathetic species really. And without wishing to impugn the Lord at all, He would have done well to stop at the great apes!