Compare it to any one who gets a lesser sentence for harming a human being
More chickens suffer in the average battery egg farm every day than dogs Michael Vick killed or hurt - but people dont care so much for the rights of chickens.
The disproportionate punishment the guy got seems still relevant to me because people are still talking about whether he belongs in the league or not. He is still facing games off.
Like I said, I dont approve of dog fighting or the way in which you need to treat the dogs to make them fight - but people who commit crimes of violence are treated with less contempt that this and it doesnt stack up.
Maybe Vick killed or hurt 50 dogs, I dont know. A battery farm might have 20,000 chickens all suffering in horrible and unnatural conditions. But since a chicken isnt a pet people dont bother about it - is that right? I couldnt believe the guy got jail time. As I understand he wasnt even that involved in the physical side of the dog fighting, he just funded it.
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Originally Posted by YaWhateva
sorry i know this thread isn't about whether he paid his debt to society back or not but:
He didn't just hurt dogs, he(and/or his associates) tortured and killed many dogs. Now if Chris Brown had electrocuted and hung Rihanna(along with many other women) and got a lighter sentence then you could use that comparison that hurting a dog is worse than hurting a human, but domestic violence(while extremely reprehensible) is not the same as the torture and murder of a lot of animals.
sorry, /threadjack.
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Murder is a crime that only really applies to people.
Or else every farmer, fisherman and hunter in the country would be a serial killer. Not to mention anyone who set traps or poison for mice or rats, etc...
A lot of common rat poisons cause the rat to die very painfully by the way, but I wonder how many people who use them are considered or consider themselves to be torturers?
I dont want to get too far off track - so I'll stick to saying I think its crazy that Michael Vick still would be banned for the first 6 games of the season, he should be free to play for any team. The NFL is a sports competition, not a moral organisation... people should expect to be banned for breaking rules on the pitch, dangerous play, serious foul play, etc - or cheating off the pitch in terms of drugs, betting, etc
Whether a guy is cruel to animals or not should have zero percent to do with his fitness to play football.