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July 25, 2007 About a decade ago, a dog attacked a ten year old
girl and tore her arm off. The case became a national news story, and the
authorities decided to put the dog to sleep or in other more truthful
words--kill it. The county government received thousands of letters from
dog lovers across the nation, begging the officials not to kill the dog and
offering to adopt it and retrain the animal so it would make a fine house
pet. The girl only received a handful of sympathy letters. I think
this comparison is illuminating: people's blind affection for their animal
love slaves causes them to lose all sanity and perspective. Now pundits
are making hypocrites out of themselves when they condemn Michael Vick for his
alleged dog-fighting ring.
I guarantee just about every pundit critical of Vick eats meat
and watches violent sports such as football, boxing, and ultimate
fighting. Some probably participate in hunting and fishing. I just
don't get it. Why is dog fighting bad but people fighting good? In
boxing two men stand there dishing out mutual brain damage. They move
around and strategize how to give their opponent a concussion without sustaining
one themselves. Frank Deford, famous scribe for Sports Illustrated,
condemned boxing but justified football--he said the object of football isn't to
hurt the opponent. He doesn't understand the fundamental nature of the
game. Football players block and tackle each other as hard as possible so
the opposing team can't function and execute their game plan. How many
times is a great quarterback roughed until he's either knocked out of the game
or so rattled and intimidated he can't play well? Players of vastly uneven
sizes slam into each other from all kinds of different angles in bone crunching
hits, and if a running back slips away, the tackler often desperately grabs the
runner's face mask, yanking him to the ground and endangering his neck.
Broken necks are common football injuries. I guess these pundits
think it's ok for people to tear each other apart but when dumb animals do it,
it's a sin.
One point pundits make is ludicrous. They say the dogs
have no control over their fates. I suppose the Kentucky Fried Chickens
they brought home for dinner the other night flew into the barrel of their own
accord. Chickens are raised and live their entire lives packed in
warehouses that smell like the inside of a port-o-let, only worse. On the
way to market they're stuffed so tightly inside trucks they can't move for
hours. Do these pundits think deer and ducks fly in front of rifles and
shotguns on purpose? Do fish strike that worm because they like to be deep
fried? The truth is: people have complete control over domesticated
animals. Pet owners, at least responsible ones, don't allow their dogs to
roam neighborhoods, defecating on lawns and knocking over garbage cans, though
I'm sure if dogs had control over the situation, they would want
to.
Sure, dog fighting is a brutal ugly sport, but it's no more
brutal and ugly than the way modern meat factories butcher cows, pigs, and baby
sheep. So unless a pundit is a vegetarian who abhors violent sports, they
look pretty silly acting so outraged over Michael Vick.
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