Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 90 Editor's Choice: 4
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Dogs
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Vick doesn't live in Thailand, he lives in the US, where cruelty to animals is against the law. Federal and State. And where dogs are pets and workers (we don't like to know about them being used as test subjects here) that owners and handlers love. Here, it is immoral and illegal to train dogs to kill, force them to fight, and to kill the ones who underperform. It is probably immoral to do this type of thing anywhere, with any animal, but that doesn't matter since we live in the US where the matter is settled.
I think Vick sould be allowed to play for the Falcons, and if he underperforms, he should be body slammed, electrocuted and drowned. That would pretty much mean that he would be killed after his 1st game back, since he consistently underperforms.
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Licenses
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe there should just be licenses (expensive) required for "dangerous" dog breeds, and the government and neighbors would have a recourse if someone has a potentially dangerous dog (revoke license of an actual dangerous dog, arrest owners of unlicensed dogs). Even more expensive licences required to breed them. Anyone with such a dog and no license would be charged with a felony. Then those that know how to breed and raise these dogs safely could do so, and maybe this dogfighting nonsense would end. If you are poor and can't afford the license, too bad. there is no inalienable right to your choice of dog breed. There are other dogs. Obviously guns require "licensing", and criminals still use them for crimes. But dogs are harder to conceal than a gun. But maybe these losers would just start cockfights if you take their dogs away . . .
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Pant Anal
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Football is not a bloodsport. You should look up that term. It is violent, but the participants wear helmets and pads, and they do not play until one side submits or dies. Hyperbole just helps to negate your point.
Very few make it out of poverty by becoming a professional athlete, and how does your argument make any sense when you look at all the examples (like both manning pro QB's) "privileged" kids making it to the NFL?
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Nature?
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The meanness of pit bulls is nurture, not nature, but the reason these dogs are bred and used as fighters is their "nature" - their muscle mass (especially in the neck and jaw area), mouth size for maximum bite, and short snout for less injury when biting. They also have a high pain tolerance, stamina, and a strong will to not release something once it is in their mouth. Fight trainers bring out these characteristics through training and turn these characteristics to ill use, but they are naturally there to begin with.
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@ Bob in Pacifica
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was kidding about Vick's punishment. I am against the death penalty, and certainly don't think it should be applied to low level federal felonies. I am already getting bored with explaining things to you, and you are either stupid or being intentionally obtuse, but I will try to continue.
I don't care if you stick a firecracker in W's butt if that is what you are into. I'm not sure that would be a sufficient or effective punishment for his crimes in Texas or anywhere else.
I have been involved with the prosecution (State) of pit bull owning dog fighters. I just saw a story on Real Sports last week where some guys got prosecuted for crimes similar to Vick's. Look up Floyd Boudreaux and his son Guy. Louisiana dog fight operators, prosecuted. In fact, do a simple internet search and you'll find many. You see, you don't know everything. You don't know if laws are enforced or not, but you like to make broad, unsupported claims and expect people to agree with you and follow your thought pattern to other discussions.
If you read other letters on here, you will find that you weren't the only fool to compare Vick's case to Thailand dog eating, so don't be so grandiose to think everyone has to fully address all of your off-topic, philosophical questions. Whatever your definition of "morality", breeding, torturing and training an animal to kill its own kind so that humans can gamble and cheer on the outcome cannot be "moral." No one is limited to such an activity for their livelihood, it conditions the animal to perform unnatural acts, and only benefits the fleeting entertainment desires of the human viewers. Nothing moral in that. There is morality in natural order, but not in dog fighting. You are embarrassing yourself.
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Also Bob:
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do think there is an absolute morality regarding the sale of humans into bondage. Father's selling their daughters into prostitution is absolutely immoral. Maybe dad could go give BJ's for a few bahts and send them home to his daughter instead? Or maybe he shouldn't be having children, or learn to live on grubs. Of course there are moral absolutes - without them, we cannot have a society.
By the way, even in pacifica, he's your president too.
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Bob in la la land again . . .
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You cannot read Bob, apparently not even your own postings. You asked about W and if he should have firecrackers put in his butt, and I answered you. You specifically claimed that no one gets prosecuted for dog fighting cases, and demanded that someone name a case where such a thing happened. You didn't ask for "google hits". Dog fighting prosecutions happen all the time. 4 more guys just got prosecuted in dayton OH yesterday. You were proven wrong and ignorant, and became embarrassed so you tried to change the issue again. You don't know what you are talking about. Not suprising that you do not understand sarcasm, exaggeration, humor, etc. Just because you are unable or refuse to understand or read something, doesn't make you right. You are Bush-obsessed, congratulations. Forgive us if we don't want to relate every possible topic to your obsession with W, frogs, and his rectum. Please stop embarrassing yourself.