“Apparently the courts do, otherwise Michael Vick wouldn’t have spent a year jail for dog fighting. “
So if you kill a couple of dozen children you will only get one year in jail?
Really?
It's a tricky thing, English - sometimes comparisons aren't exact, sad to say. We just have to depend on the intelligence of the reader to understand the intent and not take it to literal extremes. Splitting hairs seems to be a specialty of yours.