For background, I've never liked Michael Vick as a person or as a player.
With that said, I think the punishment of 23 months in prison for his role in dogfighting is just ridiculous! Don't get me wrong, what he did was dumb and uncalled for, but I am saddened to see such an emphasis in our society put upon that.
I think professional sports leagues have bigger problems with their stars fathering children out of wedlock, abuse of drugs, abuse of spouses, involvement in real crime rings such as gangs. Why aren't leagues and law enforcement going after these people and making examples of them for real problems that plague our society? Instead, we've got idiots protesting outside the Falcons' headquarters with their poodles demanding rights for Fluffy. Why not protest for peoples' rights?!
I think we've got our priorities all out of whack. As much as I dislike Vick, I'm sorry to see him be made an example for something so dumb.
What do you think?
2007-12-10 07:36:13 · 17 answers · asked by klick10110 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I absolutely agree. I'm not a football guy, so this has absolutely nothing to do with liking or not liking the man. I think there are just a lot of better reasons to dislike Vick or just about anyone else in major league sports.
I also find that raising the value of an animal's life above that of a human being, no matter how adorable the animal and disgusting the human, is disturbing at the very least.
2007-12-10 07:42:23 · answer #1 · answered by RedEagleLaughing 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't think causing pain and killing animals is something we should be encouraging.
Its against the law, its obvious by the actions he took to hide his involvement that he knew it. He choose to ignore the law, and lets not forget it seems there were some drugs and gambling going on too.
He wasn't dumb, he had a full grown animal killing ground going on. He thought he could get away with it. I think anyone who thinks killing animals is a sport needs some serious help. Watching dogs rip each other apart is sick.
You can protest for peoples rights and still have time left over for Fluffy, its not mutually exclusive.
The man broke the law, he admitted his guilt, hes no different from any other criminal, and he had excellent representation.
If I'm going to feel sorry for anything its the kittens he fed to those dogs to give them a taste for blood.
Maybe he can think about that while hes sitting in jail.
BTW the sentence he was given was pretty much in line with other animal cruelty cases here, he may have a better known name, but it was a fair sentence.
2007-12-10 15:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by justa 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dog fighting has been going on for years. It does not make it right so I do believe that there should a punishment and 23 months for slaughtering well over 100 dogs is an extremely light sentence in my eyes. What I don't like is that Michael has become the face of animal abuse due to media coverage. This guy has done nothing that hasn't been done for hundreds of years and by thousands of people. Either way it is the law and I'm glad to see that even someone famous is not above it.
2007-12-10 15:44:03 · answer #3 · answered by Tea Party Patriot 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Anyone who tortures & abuses & kills animals who can be pets, & teaches them by abusing them to kill other possible pets, & raises them just to do this to them, is sick & needs to be kept away for a long time. Because if you can do this to an innocent animal, you have the capacity to do it to humans as well. Study the Jeffery Dahmers case & what he did to animals before he started on humans. They better protect Vick in the big house. They don't like people who mess with innocents. Human or animal.
I think he is sick, & just because he learned how to play a game, makes him to more than anyone else.
2007-12-10 16:05:41 · answer #4 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A thug is a thug. He is a thug with no regard or respect for the law. He thinks his ability to play football and his large salary exempts him from the rules and laws that the rest of us must follow.
I think his sentence is too short....and too much media coverage was made about the whole thing.
No matter how you dress 'em up, no matter how much money they earn, no matter how many cars, homes or boats they own....a thug will always be a thug.
2007-12-10 18:13:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, it was a law and he broke it... That's all I agree with...
I don't agree with all the laws, but I follow them, otherwise I'll go to jail.
Dogs are killed everyday in shelters. I set a mouse trap last night and killed a mouse, does that make me bad? No, cuz there's no law against it.
I have to believe that it's the lawbreaking that got him in prison rather than the fact that he killed dogs... It's far less than killing a person.
2007-12-10 15:45:30 · answer #6 · answered by A W 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Granted , I'm a big dog lover...
But I wonder if Vicks sentence seems long only because the courts are too lenient to crimes against people ?
2007-12-10 15:40:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Innocent dogs don't get a second chance.
People that abuse animals, are also people that have the ability to abuse women and children.
The punishment is fair. It's about time we stopped slapping the hands so the offender can repeat their crimes of animal cruelty.
Dogs (and other animals) need our voice to speak for them. The people have spoken. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE ANIMAL ABUSE.
2007-12-10 15:41:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
i know someone who got ten years for killing cats so vick could look at it like he got off easy
2007-12-10 15:40:18 · answer #9 · answered by little78lucky 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Dog fighting, cock fighting, any kind of animal fighting is curel and inhumane. He should have gotten at least double what the judge gave him.
2007-12-10 15:44:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋