Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
- Location
- Banned from the forum
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- He/Him
The UK has a rich tradition of sports relying on animals fighting each other, from medieval bear-baiting to Victorian ratting. Sadly, the nascent animal-rights movement gradually rendered them illegal, with ratting—since the terriers and sometimes chimps were up against unprotected vermin—being the last to fall in the 1880s. How could this be prevented? Could these bloody sports have survived into the modern era, or were they always doomed by upper-middle-class moral outrage?