You know this is quite interesting to me. The fact that someone could watch animals put in a situation for human entertainment fight to the death or worse near death and left to die and feel nothing is beyond me. Now the point is does it make it wrong. Who am I to judge that? What about when people actually go out to the barn or yard or whatever to get dinner? What do they feel when they ring a neck or chop a head off? If anything, they feel they are 5 minutes closer to a full belly. I couldn't do it, but does it make it wrong? Who am I to judge that? On the other hand, you have all the statistics about violent criminals that got their start with animal cruelty and how they end up locked in a cell, because they snapped and took a baseball bat to someone, or assaulted someone and when questioned felt or showed no remorse. Not everyone thinks alike and with this thread, one's personal opinion feeds right into the other person's statistics of what could potentially happen. Now if I see a horse break down, I turn the other way, and the same goes with dog fighting or anything else where an animal is suffering. But if someone is near me and isn't bothered by the sight of it, I don't go claiming to have discovered a potential violent criminal either. Do I hope Vick has played his last down ever and if the indictment is true gets big time punishment? Absolutely!! Do I understand that there may be people out there saying "they were pit bulls, that's what they were bred to do!" Absolutely! I truly see both of your points and as I said, it's pretty interesting.......
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