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Add to FavoritesMichael Vick is the kind of guy that are kids are looking up to, that adults are looking up to, the kind of guy who is suppossed to represent a good role model image. And yeah, that's hard. You can mess up. BUT THIS KIND OF MESS-UP is the kind that leads down one of the worst roads. Abuse a kitten, Make dogs fight one another, Kill those same dogs brutally.......this leads to molesters, torturers, assasins, killers and serial killers.
Once anyone who finds amusement in hurting and harming living creatures that REALLY show REAL emotion (such as dogs and cats) will soon find that that isn't enough. They will want something better and become unsatisfied with the cats and dogs because its just the same as they've done before. It's already been done. So they'll move on to babies, children and other adults. It has actually been studied before and studies have shown that this is true. (I'm sorry I don't know the exact article, but doesn't it sound right? If not, go look it up. It's out there.)
So Mr. Vick, I don't care who he is, celebrity or not celebrity, he needs a longer sentence. Because he lied first, and then he committed so many acts of cruelty that are unreasonable. If he's sorry, feels remorse, then that's great. BUT don't let him get away with a simple "sorry." This is the time where that isn't enough. He did get a decent sentence and that's good but I think it should have been extended another 3-6 months. He needs to be shown that what he did is NEVER acceptable and leads to EVEN WORSE scenerios.
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Let me state at the outset that I am not a Michael Vick fan, either when he's on or off the playing field.
However, I am firmly in favor of celebrities receiving no lesser or stiffer penalties than those doled out to average U.S. citizens. While in the last year we have seen seemingly preferential treatment of convicted entertainers in the way of abbreviated sentences, we have also witnessed celebrities being held up as examples and receiving more stringent penalties solely due to their notoriety. Both are wrong.
I have been actively involved in animal rescue my entire life. After many years adopting disabled dogs, I recently took in three feral kittens. I also currently volunteer as a horse rescue worker. I fully realize what Michael Vick did in terms of his conviction-and lied about-was reprehensible. He fully deserved to be punished for the conviction. I personally would never like to lay eyes on the man. However, while I might have sent him to the slammer for a longer period of time, I believe that his sentencing was within normal parameters for the offense.
In order to prevent celebrities from receiving preferential treatment or from being exploited solely due to their fame, we should fully support treating them the same way an average citizen would be treated. And we can take comfort in the fact that he apparently did NOT get away with criminal behavior.
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