It’s not a straw argument at all. We are discussing crimes, paying your debt to society, and then getting on with your life. We are just using a different crime as an example, the theory is the same.
Let’s use a different crime if you are uncomfortable with our example. If you owned a company and somebody embezzled money from you, got caught, went to prison and “paid their debt to society”. After his debt to society was paid would you hire that person back to handle your finances?
Another lousy comparison. That person doesn’t have to be hired to do your finances. He can be ruled out on incompetance.
How does dogfighting mean no longer allowed to play football? To no longer being allowed to be a veternarian or dogcatcher? Okay valid comparison.
It is most certainly a straw argument. To equate crimes of sexual deviancy with what Vick was tried, and convicted for, are TOTALLY unrelated. Do we sentence the first time shoplifter to the same jail sentence a convicted murderer should get? Why not? The crimes are not the same. Trying to draw a corollary between the most heinous of crimes and what Vick did time for is nonsense. Look, I’m not a fan of Vick; never have been, never will be. But, I do believe in the concept of second chances; the man did his time for his conviction...are we to believe the people who’ve done bad things and lived through the appropriate punishment are to be thrown on the ash-heap, with no chance of redemption/forgiveness? I refuse to accept that.
As an aside, all molesters and pedophiles should be shot by firing squad. A poorly-trained firing squad. So it takes a while. :-)