First of all, let me say that I find dog fight repulsive and barbaric and the descriptions of what happened to the poor animals who failed their “fighting tests”, how cruelly they were dispatched, beyond words and it’s incomprehensible to me how some people can be so vicious.
I’m no expert on this so-called “sport”, but there was a time however when dog fighting, bull baiting, cock fighting, etc. were acceptable forms of entertainment. Think back to ancient Rome when animals and even humans fought to the death for the entertainment of the crowd. We today we see it differently and of course know these things are wrong in context of how we today view our world and apply our moral standards.
The problem here today is that the animal rights wackies want us to anthropomorphize all animals to such an extent that hunting, fishing, raising animals for food and even keeping animals as pets is viewed as equally barbaric as dog fighting and gladiatorial combat, when in reality they aren’t. Then again the folks at PETA probably don’t give the proverbial fat rat’s a$$ about humans and wouldn’t care if we brought back gladiators as long as no “animals” were involved.
I used to go fishing with my dad. We threw many back and were happy to see them swim safely away. And the fish we kept (for mom to cook up for dinner), we didn’t mutilate or torture for our entertainment. I’ve never had an interest in hunting but I’ve known many hunters over the years (and received gifts of some great deer meat) and I know they strive to kill the animal with one shot as quickly and humanly as possible. I’ve known hunters who were very upset when they wounded a deer and it ran off and could not be found, and not just because they lost their quarry but because they really didn’t want the animal to suffer. The same goes for farmers, they usually care about their animals and when it comes time for slaughter, they dispatch them as quickly and painlessly as possible and they don’t take any glee in seeing them suffer.
Obviously Lawrence O’Donnell is too intellectually challenged to discern the difference.