[Pan_Yan]

1. I never said anyone should forget what he did.
2. If kids look at him as a role model that is the parents fault, not Vick's.
3. He was held accountable. You might not agree with his sentence, but the government that represents you did. He went to jail for longer than his cohorts because he was famous.
4. He was not ‘awarded a very privileged life’. Some ridiculous number like 88% of college football players think they are going on to the NFL. Vick was better than 99.9% of them. God gave him talent. He used it to achieve fortune and fame. Doesn't make him a good person, doesn't mean you have to like him. But it's not his fault that being an NFL player pays more than what most people do for a living.
5. It seems a lot of people are upset with the legal system for not giving him life in prison, or executing him, or forbidding him from earning a living. Feel free to start a petition to get these things addressed by your elected representatives.

[Notary Sojac]

Many people are upset with the whole thug culture in the NFL. Vick is an easy target for the expression of that upset.

[jerseyrocks]

1. No need to be defensive.
2. Vick should not be in a position with the NFL right now to be role model.
3. Your definition and my definition of accountable come from two different meanings.
4. His talent allowed him to live a privileged life and he used that life to be cruel to animals.
5. No need to create another law, I think we have enough on the books. The NFL is at fault with this one imo. He choose to be inhumane so the NFL should have chosen not to endorse that behavior by allowing him the privilege of playing.

[Emperor Palpatine]

No one’s forbidding him to earn a living.

He could sit at the window and ask “You want fries with that?”