Sick Vick

I've been briefly following the story on Michael Vick, being that i am an avid animal lover. I was astonished when i stumbled upon an article on MSN giving a quick overview of his abuse. I remember hearing something in my psychology class relating animal abuse to serial killers, and other violent criminals. The worst part of the article was the comments by Stephon Marbury, which is one of Vick's friends.
He said,"I think we don't say anything about people who shoot deer or shoot other animals," the Knick point guard told Capital News 9, an Albany TV station. "You know, from what I understand, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors."

The argument about Vick is not that fact that he was dogfighting, people have their own views on that being a sport, my view is any sport that condones the death of another animal in violent fighting is not right. People have hunted since the beginning of time to survive. It has now become more of a trend to hunt for sport but there are also laws regarding hunting as well. Hunting is a far cry from drowning a helpless animal because it fails to meet your fighting standard or tying a bitch to a poll because she declines a certain mate,so that she can have a train run on her. It's preposterous and studies have shown that people who associate themselves with behavior abusive to animals tend to later in their life become abusive or violent toward humans.

I took the liberty of snatching a quote from a site i passed over on that topic.

"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives," wrote humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer. "Murderers ... very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids," according to Robert K. Ressler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

If we continue to let this behavior exist in the entertainment world,what will our children think about the people they obviously look up to, and mold their lives around?