Posted on 08/27/2007 9:30:47 AM PDT by PurpleMan
"What I did was very immature so that means I need to grow up," he said.
He said, "Through this situation I've found Jesus."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
...and don’t even ask what they sell at the concession stand.
Yes, cruelty is bad. I think the uproar ignores the fact that football is rough game involving rough men with rough habits. It is civilized brawling. For many of these guys, the civilization is pretty much on the surface. The bad thing about the life-style that men like Vick leads is that it can lead to really bad things. He could kill a girl-friend, for instance.
“You guys want to come in and try to justify what Vick did.”
No, I don’t. And you can’t make me.
[One is a human being, another is an animal.]
...and they were both created by?
Wasn't there a character in the HBO series "Oz" who was a former NBA star? IIRC he also was someone who believed in "keepin' it real" and was convicted of murder. Prison didn't improve his behavior, as I recall...
Your point?
Depends what for. There is a purpose to executing people who have committed heinous crimes (usually murder or multiple murders), after having a lengthy legal process, etc. The purpose is to punish and also to educate (others, that is). I cannot see the purpose of electrocuting a dog when a more humane method of killing is available (first knock out the dog, then poison it - the animal feels very little pain vs. electrocution). I personally think that this was done for kicks, an adult (if you can call it that) version of pulling the wings off of a fly.
Is it EVIL to kill a cow by hitting it in the head really hard and then hacking it up for food?
Maybe; no. I personally think that we should kill food animals as painlessly as possible. The kosher laws, as an example, require that the carotid artery be slit quickly, with a knife that is extremely sharp and which has no nicks in it. The animal bleeds out in a minute or less. While certainly not pain free, it is better than clubbing it over the head, and is pretty advanced considering that the method first came into use approximately 3,300 years ago. Hacking the animal up afterwards does nothing to torture the animal in any way.
Not necessarily. They might not be right in the head, but I don't know that I'd go that far.
This guy’s a bad seed and that’s not something people grow out of.
I agree.
That's rich coming from someone who wrote only 2 days ago:
There are plenty of people out there who value animals equal to or greater than humans. They are not sick. They are evil.
- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886364/posts?page=23#23"
Physician, heal thyself.
[Your point?]
If you have to ask, no answer will suffice.
In over 8 years as a prosecutor, I now have figured out that Jesus lives at our local jail. It must be so, because everyone who spends a month or more out there swears to the judge that they have found Jesus. He must stay at the jail when they leave, though, because as soon as they are out the door, Jesus is the last thing on their minds!
It is a shame, too, because if they really found Jesus, it might do them some good.
I noticed that also. And I don't think he's sorry about a damn thing, only that he got caught.
criminal, I like that
Vicks downfall was all because of a dog. A drug dog. Pretty ironic....
maybe even poetic justice...but ironic is a better fit
Well, he didn't fine Jesus either - - Vick's a criminal in search of an pass.
But you do, and you despise him. And then mock his profession of faith, which could be insincere, but no one knows that.
So stop trying to defend a criminal.
I don't. He broke the law and should pay the price. The problem is the inordinate venom for Vick motivated by equating animals with humans - a principle which is denied but obviously felt.
This is purely theoretical, but suppose you were given a choice - your favorite pet dies, or Michael Vick dies. Which would you choose? If you choose "favorite pet", then you equate animals with humans, or rather animals over humans.
Michael Vick is sick, but so are those who hate him.
I doubt the agent will have to give anything back. He did his job, and I'm sure he's got some contractual protection against any of Vick's actions causing him to have to repay commissions to the team.
Point taken. I should have written that the belief is evil, not the individual who believes it, whom I cannot know and should not judge.
If that's true, then why were horse thieves hanged in the old west?
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