Is Something Wrong with our Social Perception?

Question

What would lead a host of people to seek to place a human being in prison for the rest of his or her youth because he or she supports animal fights? Our social perception seems a little bit twisted. It is twisted that someone would set up animal fights and gamble on such activities. However, it is MORE twisted that so many are willing to support the human athletic ability and sacrifice (many footballers die or end up crippled for life for the sport, pleasure and financial gain, not just for themselves but for millions of others, there are some who gain more than the athletes, yet, would lock away a footballer for the rest of his youth, possibly his life, because he supports animal fights. Animal rights are to be respected and we need not support cruelty to wild beasts (they are instinctively cruel to each other in the wild). Are we so intelligent that we would teach animals to love so much that we forget what is greater and most important to us, the dignity for human life? Curious

Answer 1

For me, the difference is a matter of free-will vs. control. Humans supposedly have free-will and decide whether or not they want to beat somebody's head in in a ring--animals do not. Same reason that children are protected now and cannot be thrown into workhouses, mines and prisons with adults. They have no power to decide. I think that what did the football guy in, was the fact of his excessive cruelty in killing and destroying those animals that didn't fight well! And cruelty to animals IS against the law.