Dude, please answer some other way. Its virtually impossible to address what you are posting (ie respond) the way you are doing it.
sorry I was trying to answer JMT1's specific comments.
My main purpose was to point various types of brutality where humans are put in the same arena as animals or vice versa and I also added where do we draw the line on brutality? What is brutality and what is not brutality morally is my question?
I DO NOT support Michael Vick in any shape way or form in this situation although I thought he was exciting to watch on the gridiron. As I commented earlier he should pay his debt to society just as any other felon would have to because they broke the law (unregulated gambling and mistreatment of animals).
If gambling was not involved would that have change the importance of this particular case?
I know we can only speculate but look at the past, when has this been such a widely publicized issue? The media has spent more time on this than abused and missng children we see sex offenders get off everyday because of legal technicalities and kills or rape again but kill an animal and your ass is grass its all BULLSHITT!
Here in the states on one of the nature channels (discovery channnel I think) they have shows about dog fighting task forces and thats all they do is track down dog fighting rings but those cases never make the big national news networks. If dog fighting was such a big deal why did they wait until a celeb athlete was accused? This is why I say it's hypocrosy I have a hard time thinking its all about the dogs or what they go through in these gruesome situations (again which I despise). I think MONEY is the bigger issue here (Not race at all) Vick broke the one law you don't break in America and that is DO NOT MAKE MONEY that the government can't tax and or regulate. We could go down many rabbit holes on this issue of whats brutal and whats not based on choices i.e., (religion, abortion, animal euthanizations ect.)