Am I any different than Vick?
I wrote about the Vick story earlier and tried to find the right words that state I don’t condone what he did at all but feel as if the media being against him is over the top. Later today I read a comment on ben witherington’s blog that says it better then I could.
I really don’t understand the public outcry over this. I think what Michael Vick did was awful, but I’m looking at it from a vegetarian perspective. How ridiculous it seems to me to hear news reports about how Michael Vick should be locked up forever for electrocuting and strangling dogs and then a commercial promoting BOJANGLES WORLD FAMOUS CHICKEN. Chickens which undoubtedly were also killed by electrocution or while still alive were boiled or sawn in half. What is the difference? Why is it acceptable to electrocute a chicken but wicked to electrocute a dog? Is it because people eat the chicken? Does that make it right? Millions of baby chicks are thrown in the grinder on the first day of their life just because they are male. They’re never eaten, just thrown in the trash or turned in to fertilizer or chicken feed. Much as I detest Michael Vicks treatment of his dogs, I feel more empathy for him. He is the victim of a society seething in unbelievable moral hypocrisy.
Why is boxing (human fighting human) or bull fighting or fishing or soccer (I read it was the sport that produced the most injuries one time) or deer hunting, any different?
Or why do we get so upset about a dog being killed but tune out the voice of the abused and neglected children?
August 30th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I am complete frustrated with this situations as well. It is disheartening to watch our society, our peers, call for the head of man who admitted his mistake and is taking much of the responsibility himself. Child abusers, rapist, murders are all given more grace than Michael Vick is at this point. Do I think he deserves punishment . . . of course . . . but do I think he needs to be the poster child for evil men . . .abosolutely not. How can we as the human race turn our nose up at the homeless, not even knowing their story, or pretend that we don’t know the disfunction in the families around us . . . still we flock to point at a man that made a thoughtless and cruel mistake. We know of marriages that are in the midst of affairs, children that are picked on at school (abuse in my opinion), and friends that persue men/ women for pure sexual gratification and say nothing and even scoff in jest at it. Yet run to the aid of dogs. We are culture of causes and individuality . . . . nothing more. The more we try to accept each for our differences the more we forget we are all the same . . . sinful
August 31st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
A hour ago I was in the Walmart parking lot. I heard children screaming and crying from a car. A women with a cigarette hanging out her mouth with swinging her arms at the backseat of this car. When she took her smoke out she was screaming at the children in the backseat. I kept hearing the crys of the children. I called 911.