Re: Michael Vick Eligibility Poll
As to the hunting analogy, there is a huge difference between hunting and what this piece of crap did. Is not fishing hunting as well?
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I'm thoroughly enjoying the display of utter madness and idiocy in people "not so much in this forum" excusing or mitigating the dog fighting atrocity by trying to blur the distinction between it and hunting.
First, our laws are a reflection upon what society deems as moral and ethical. Hunting wild animals, though highly regulated, has always been legal and is in fact encouraged by every state's department of natural resources. In short, hunting is legal. Dog fighting, involving domesticated animals, is illegal. I'm sorry if you disagree with the law.
Second, unlike dog fighting, there is a legitimate purpose in hunting. Even quite liberal natural science professors across the nation recognize regulated hunting as a viable means to avoiding exponential spikes and drops in the given animal population. Isle Royale (Lake Superior), for instance, is studied by such natural science professors. Hunting isn't allowed on the island and scientists recognize offsetting exponential population drops and spikes between deer/moose and wolves. This is a scenarior, absent hunting or human interference, that places each species on the brink.
Third, what is the underlying purpose or intent of the hunter versus the backroom dog fighting sponsor and gambler? Any ethics professor in any college's philosphy department will differentiate between willful and unintentional acts. In hunting, the intent is to kill, yes, but as quickly and humanely as possible consistent with the rules of the legal outdoor sport. Unlike dog fighting, the thrill isn't in the kill, but in the chase. If it were otherwise, the hunter wouldn't choose to use their tools of trade.
The hunter's intent is to use a 30-06 or .308 or what have you to put a 180-grain bullet, traveling around 1,500 feet per second, through a fatal zone in the targeted animal. In a deer this target is usually about a one-foot diameter circle behind the front leg, between the shoulder and lower chest area. If done as intended, the kill is quick if not painless as well. Such cannot be said for the pit bull or fighting dog.
I hope I don't have to spell out in great detail the conduct of Bad Newz Kennels, but their endeavor included the purposeful or intentional torture resulting in death of many dogs, by means of slamming, drowning, hanging, and electrocution -- this after the dogs were subjected to mauling. The drawn out killing was called "testing," by Vick and Bad Newz. Their tools of trade included rape stands, used to breed female dogs by force. The stated impetus to or justification for this conduct was gambling -- which in itself is illegal in Virginia. However, given the facts as spelled out in the indictment to which Vick intends to stipulate on Monday, the gambling was a pretext. Their ultimate vice was simple blood lust and barbarism.
The few who are defending Vick by comparing dog fighting to hunting, or by even drawing the race card, should just simply STFU because you're logic is so skewed that it's borderline sociopathy.
