Vick Files for Bankruptcy

[calpoon]

I agree with you 110% FOX on the need to spotlight the animal (and I might add, human) abuse that is going on daily.

I can't speak for everybody, but it's not like I am prioritizing this above everything else. Give me a list of things and I'll tell you how I feel about them, or I could write a laundry list of things that I think we need to work on. this thread just happens to be about Vick, so that is why people are talking about him and not others.

I don't think that Vick is getting treated unfairly, he's getting treated the way that everyone who does what he did should be. And I think that the reason why people are focusing so much on him is that they are sick of always seeing celebrities get away with committing crimes because of their wealth and influence, and they are glad to see that justice is being served.

 

[shayd]

Well you know this is a tough one. Nobody believes in animal rights more than I do. And yet here we all are pointing fingers, but our whole society treats animals like garbage, puts them down because our society refuses to pay for them to be kept alive in shelters, and basically animals are just cute and cuddly when we want them and useless when we don't. I want to see animals protected on all levels at some point, but it'll never happen. And I want to see people stop scapegoating (no pun intended) Mike Vick, one of the 1,000,000 animal-bashers in America and one of the few who got caught, and start doing something to change the attitudes of the whole nation, so that we take care of our animals instead of abusing them.

I agree with you for the most part. I just have serious questions about the plausibility of protecting animals at any level close to humans. Not because I'm opposed to it, just because I don't know if we as a nation could afford that. That and I highly doubt the majority of the people in this nation would be willing to pay a tax to provide for the care of animals. I could be wrong, but that's just how it seems to me.

As for Vick, I'm not so sure he shouldn't be scapegoated. Perhaps his case is being blown up on a national scale too much, however he hasn't exactly proven himself to be an upstanding citizen, and I'm talking long before his arrest. And when you've got that kind of past, and you're rich and famous (meaning he's going to be in the news) it's hard to take pity on someone who did something like that. No doubt everyone who partakes in animal cruelty is just as heinous, but he knew he was living on a national scale, and still did it. He's got a track record that pretty much speaks for itself.