Is Michael Vick a Sociopath?
You have a young adult, a professional NFL QB making millions of dollars a year who is admired by adults and looked upon as a role model by young kids. He has a bright future, a fiance and children. As he has been known to say "I have the world in my hands".
Why would someone like that choose to start, lead, and participate in a felonious criminal activity? An activity that was not only criminal but inhumane, vile, and sadistic in the truest sense of those words.
Why would someone, who on the outside appears normal, willingly and deliberately choose to embark upon an activity that takes innocent, voiceless, and defenseless dogs and force them to fight one another to the death? And, as if that is not repugnant enough, that same person would take dogs who did not meet his needs and execute them in some of the most horrific methods ever imagined.
This included holding their heads under water in 5 gallon buckets and drowning them while they struggled with everything they had simply to take one more breath of air.
This included taking a rope and putting it around their neck and hanging them from a tree while they swung from that rope fighting mightily, once again, to simply be able to breathe.
This included picking up a dog by it's hind legs and slamming it against the ground until the majority of it's bone were broken and it's organs ruptured from it's body.
This included taking dogs, wetting them down with water and electrocuting them to death.
This was all done to dogs that wanted nothing more to please the "human" that was doing this to them.
What was in the "mind" of Michael Vick when he tied a rope around the neck of one of his dogs to hang it and that dog was looking into his eyes with nothing but love and loyalty?
What was going through Vick's "mind" as he held one of those faithful dogs heads under water in a 5 gallon bucket and it struggled with all it's might to take one more breathe of air?
What was going through Vick's "mind" as he slammed one of these faithful dogs bodies against the ground and it screamed in pain after the first blow did not kill it? What was going through his "mind" when he had to perform this repeatedly as the dog struggled and cried and the life was slowly and brutally ravaged from it's body?
To find the answers to those questions I think we need to understand what goes on inside the mind of a sociopath. After all, a sociopath is someone who lacks a sense of moral responsibility and/or social conscience.
Moral responsibility means knowing right from wrong. I think we would all agree that what Michael Vick did was not only wrong but detestable in that it was an insult to the very normalcy and goodness of society.
Is Michael Vick a sociopath?
