The Rebuttal to Bobby’s Vick Post
by malik on Aug.25, 2007, under sports, whatever
According to the statement, Vick also was involved with the others in killing six to eight dogs that did not perform well in testing sessions in April. The dogs were executed by drowning or hanging.
“Vick agrees and stipulates that these dogs all died as a result of the collective efforts” of Vick and two of the co-defendants, Phillips and Peace, the statement said.
With all due respect to Bobby, it would’ve been nice if he did some research (i.e.: see timeline) on the matter before trying to justify the severity of one bad action against another. To compare the lost of human lives to animals is an extreme bad case of utilitarian calculus. One does not lessen the other. Genocide and War are man made instruments. Cite an example of a group of canines wrecking havoc on the worldly nations and you may have a point there. A human being who would deliberately torture and brutalize another living creature deserves no sympathy whatsoever. But Malik, you eat meat? Yeah, but (I hope) the cow didn’t take a bat to the face and hopefully the chickens weren’t stomped. For Vick, this isn’t a six year old smashing a goldfish. This is a grown man raising a killer dogs’ camp for the past five years. Five fuckin’ years.
April 2007 — Vick, Peace and Phillips conduct additional “testing” sessions, in which six to eight dogs that did not perform well were killed by drowning or hanging. Vick “agrees and stipulates” the dogs all died as a result of the “collective efforts” of all three.
Think about this for a moment. Vick participated in killing six to eight dogs in one month. Do you honestly believe he didn’t kill any other from 2002 to 2007? How many more were fucking drowned or hung?
The very simple reason this crime is all over the news is because of it’s inherit sensationalism. A very famous $140 Million Quarterback who has never really lived up to his potential that he shown in the 2000 National Championship Game. Anybody who saw that game would’ve thought the messiah was coming. Shit, I did. Do you think the 24-hour News networks would care if this was about Tyrone up in 125th Street? Hell fucking no because shit like that happens a lot. It would upset the fuck out of me, but the blowhards won’t bat an eye.
There is massive blood on the hands of Vick, but instead of admitting to his actions, he chose the smug spoiled athlete way. And spare me the punishment doesn’t fit the crime bit. Tell that shit to the potheads who were caught with a dime bag and had to do 25 years, more time than manslaughter or murder, because of the Rockefeller drug laws. Those muthafuckas have a case not a torturous spoiled prick.
Let me return to the possible point Bobby was trying to make, and that was a necessary renewal of human empathy. Why do we feel worse for a rabbit boiling in a pot than a crazy psycho bitch trying to stab her lover? Are we desensitized to human suffering? Quite possibly, but hey, if you’re waiting for the mainstream media to get you feeling something, don’t hold your breath. They’re not in the business to sell you that type of shit. You think if every dead soldier’s coffin was shown on TV the moment it lands on America; we would continue to ignore what’s going on? Of course not, that’s why photographing soldiers coffins is illegal. Does it make sense to invade a country and in the process cause more deaths in the name of stopping the dictator from doing the killings? The dictator killed 3,000 of his countrymen. We’ll invade, stop him, but in the process cause 300,000 deaths. What kind of utilitarian calculus is that? I know I’m jumping a tangent here, but the correlation here is the “twisted logical.” A (ir)rational mind will try to justify anything. A dog’s life is no greater or lesser than its’ human counterpoint. It’s a LIFE. There’s no need for a comparison.
As you can see from the ramblings, I have a dog bias. I’ve been very instrumental in the raising of three dogs in my life. I’ve walked, picked up their shit and fed them. I helped in the nurturing of a neglected pit bull (“Yahoo”) that grew up to be the best mannered dog on the planet. I pretty much raised the Shihzhu (“Biggiee”) and Yorkshire Terrier (“Diesel”) due to my irresponsible sister. Dogs are no longer property. They have become an extension of the family and so when reports of mistreatment arise, it is akin to the mistreatment of a human family member. And here lies the sympathy. Other nations, perhaps not, but different countries, different cultures. I dare you eat a steak dinner in a Hindu temple.
“His boys whacked a few dogs. Get over it.”
Get over it? Like it wasn’t Dubya’s fault too? It was just Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove Right? Unfucking believable.
