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Originally Posted by Daseal
Domestic disputes are also very high. Violence in the home is a scary thing. I would never advocate the abuse of a spouse. However, I also start to lose patience the longer a person stays in a situation like that. If the words "He hit me" and "again" are in the same sentence -- you've lost my sympathy. Wife beaters DO NOT CHANGE. If he hits you once, get the **** out. You're a human with control and the ability to leave a situation. Perhaps a shelter isn't the ideal situation, but it gives you ability to get back on your feet and away from the asshole.
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This paragraph screams to me that you have never dealt with this situation or even know someone who has been in an abusive relationship or been told by her abusive spouse, "if you leave, I'll kill you!" If you have no sympathy for a woman who is afraid for her life (& I have seen numerous film clips & read numerous newspaper articles & other stories where the estranged abusive husband returns & takes her life-check any number of Ann Rule books in your local library under "True Crime" section), then how am I supposed to have sympathy for a dog? Wife beaters are violent & they live to invoke fear into others, mainly their spouses & all too often, there are few places for a down-trodden woman to go where she can actually feel &/or be safe. And what if they have a kid together? You are trivializing something you clearly know little about.
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The problem with dog fighting is this, the dogs have no say in the matter and Vick made a conscious decision to torture them. So not only do the animals not have the power to leave the situation, Vick also is killing them, brutally, on purpose. Are there worse things than dog fighting and the torture of animals? Absolutely, but that type of reasoning is dangerous. That's asking people to monopolize all their time, effort, and money on one issue. I am a huge animal lover, I currently have two cats, and my parents have 4 dogs. I just don't understand how someone could do that to something that gives you nothing but love, all the time.
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I'm not saying that Vick SHOULDN'T have served time in jail, but that being the case, the wife beaters should serve MORE time then. What Vick did was disgusting, of this there is little doubt. But to trivialize one human being hurting another human being for any reason OTHER THAN self-defense & giving presedence to animals rights while people like Romanowski, Pittman, Julio Cesar Chavez & countless others still walk the streets without fear of prison...well, that's just silly.