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August 23rd, 2007

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  1. Genie says

    I can hardly even talk about that whole situation because it is so disgusting. He’s a “good human being”? Neither, I think. The NAACP was also defending him, but I think their take was that he only pleaded guilty in case his trial didn’t work out, and NOT because he actually had anything to do with the dogfighting. “He’s just an innocent victim who got in with a bad crowd.” Give me a break.

    August 24th, 2007 | #

  2. Sarah says

    Well, of course. Dogfighting is a sport like any other. If you’re one sick fuck, that is.

    August 24th, 2007 | #

  3. Genie says

    ” Vick Apologizes, Vows to Redeem Himself”… Let’s see him untorture those dogs and bring the dead ones back to life. It made me ill to see (on tv) the people supporting him at the Falcons game, chanting, “We all make mistakes!” Sure we do, but we all don’t commit cruel and unforgivable act of barbarism and murder.

    August 28th, 2007 | #

  4. PRP says

    To me, this whole situation doesn’t sound so much like a “mistake” as a general (mis)perception that non-human animals are here purely for our own exploitation, and that it doesn’t matter whether we coddle them as companions or torture them for our amusement. Sadly, the latter attitude seems rather more widespread in our society than I’d like.

    I’ve seen other op-ed articles saying that what the dogs went through was really no worse than what your average factory-farmed animal goes through, so why are people getting upset just because the animals involved here were dogs? I don’t know how accurate or even useful the comparison is, but I do agree with them that it’s a little weird that many of the people (not all, of course!) who are adamant about stopping (companion) animal cruelty will happily go to Chik-fil-A or McDastard’s for lunch, and not even think twice about it. (Full disclosure: I acknowledge that, years ago, I used to be one of those people, so I speak not so much from accusation or anger as from sadness.)

    There definitely is an element of cognitive disconnect here. Intentionally inflicting unnecessary suffering on an animal is bad, regardless of whether the target is a dog, a cow, a wild duck, etc. Cruelty = bad, full stop. Maybe some people who are not yet vegan will think about the arbitrary lines we draw between “friend” animals and “food” animals, and be moved to go vegan. (Hey, I can hope.)

    August 28th, 2007 | #

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