Today Michael Vick will face justice for his abominable actions. Abominable isn't even the right word. Horrifying isn't right. Nothing seems good enough to describe what he did. God gave us dominion over creation but that means he gave us a holy responsibility to care for his creation. It doesn't matter whether God is "green" what matters is that he told us to be "green" and that includes caring for animals. What Michael Vick did is just disgusting.
Now my question - I wonder whether the outcry over this horrible incident belies the deep pain we have in our souls for all the killing and violence that surrounds us. Is the "Vick incident" more about us then him?
This will be brief - I'll write more later but I think we are so sick of all the violence around us. I think we are sick of all the murders on television (those that are real and those that are fiction). I think we are sick of the common violence in our movies. I think we are sick of the suffering we see all around us. But I think that we don't know what to do about any of them. I think we are deeply hurting and deeply frustrated and Michael Vick has focused us. He has given us something we can all condemn, something that horrifies us all, something that is being resolved, something where justice is being delivered and a horror has been removed.
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I'm a bit surprised no one has mentioned the parallels between dogfighting, cockfighting, bullfighting, and the Roman gladiator fights. None of them is adequately performed without bloodshed, and death of the losing combatant is also necessary to proper completion of the ritual involved. Thumbs down to them all as practices, so to speak. :-)
It's not hard to see the roots of Vick's indulgence in dogfighting in rage, resentments, and violated excessive pride. All the pearl-clutching classist sneering and hypocrisy by average people and "the media" is about as abominable, though.
Many, if not most, young pit bulls are euthanized as unmanageable and dangerous in "normal" breeding. As a breed, pit bulls came to be by selecting for dogs most murderous of rats in the sewers of London iirc. Killing far more animals than they can eat or represent a threat to their lives is obviously insanity by dog standards, so it is a breed that is genetically seriously mentally defective and inherently dangerous to other dogs and e.g. people. In my opinion pit bulls should only be used for their selected purpose of rat extermination, if anything. There are better breeds for protection and such tasks.
Trish, Trish, put the contact lenses back in because on TV sets 6-9 you can see the Falwell son take over for Daddy, the Robertson lad take over for Papa, the Crouch boy pick up for Daddy and Mommy, and Franklin succeed Billy. Appropriate, since on set #10 they're showing re-runs of All in the Family.
"By your logic then, Donny, any existing animal cruelty laws should be removed from the books unless and until Roe V. Wade is repealed?"
By my logic, people that scream and rant about dogs being killed because they are not wanted, or for the enjoyment or betterment of the person killing them . . . and they do not yell and scream at abortionists (Liberals, Progressives, Democrats et al) every single day of the year, makes them complicit.
Yes, it is terrible to kill pit bulls or any other "animal," (although pit bulls are not a natural animal) but you do not hear a peep out of these leftist/greenies for the millions of unborn child.
And what about those who 'scream and rant' about both?
Like people can only do one or the other? Humans are capable of embracing more than one cause at a time.
And you think every Liberal, Progressive, Democrat is an actual 'abortionist'?
Don't bother to answer.. of course you do.
And I'm sure that every Conservative, Republican, Reactionary is a bloodthirsty warmonger too.
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