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I haven't watched television for any considerable length of time since March, and when I see shit like this, it makes me glad that I'm not poisoning my mind my exposing it to 1 M concentrated human stupidity at all times.
Here's my take on the story: Some jerk-off (that's you, Michael Vick) was caught participating in illegal dog-fighting. Because he was a celebrity, he got a significantly reduced sentence and lost his job as a worthless bag of meat that can move across a well-manicured rectangle of grass somewhat quickly with a football clutched to his chest and take being bullrushed by other worthless meatbags without crying like a baby. Oh well, life sucks, serve your sentence, and move on with your life. That's how it should work.
"But Kobra," say the animal rights activists, "That makes too much sense. He should never be allowed to play football again for a crime that was completely irrelevant to NFL regulations!" I don't have the linguistic ability to demonstrate the contempt I hold for such idiocy, but it's probably something along the lines of JESUS FUCKING H CHRIST HOW STUPID CAN YOU PEOPLE GET?!
And you know what? As much as I'm taken aback by this bullshit, it doesn't surprise me. It's not like I ever expected much brilliance from PETA or any of the other textbook examples of mass incompetence that plague our society. Their basic ethical argument is bullshit to begin with. Let me explain:
Pictured above is a rough estimation for social organization (as far as we need to be concerned, anyway). Humans are biologically inclined to care a great deal about the self. (Thank natural selection for that one.) Most people care about their families, then their clan, then their tribe, and so on and so forth. At some point, the farther away you get from the center circle, the person in the center is going to stop giving a shit. People who only extend their ethical concerns to humanity as a whole are humanists. People who only care about their nation are nationalists. Where am I going with this, you ask? Enter animal rights activists.
Animal rights activists are so ass-backwards that they invert the entire fucking diagram. Their chief concern is with non-human animals. They preach an ethical system that values the animal kingdom collectively more than their own species, and definitely more than the lives they destroy "liberating" animals from the hands of scientists and right into the middle of a busy intersection where they promptly become roadkill. It's a philosophy that serves no practical sense, and may in fact be detrimental to everyone.
With that in mind, I simply cannot be surprised when animal rights activists fail to comprehend how our criminal justice system works. Michael Vick was convicted of a crime, he served his sentence, and he should move on with his life without ever committing that crime again. But that's not good enough for these animal rights idiots. They want to see him unemployed, broke, destitute, homeless, hungry, dirty, beaten, and broken. They want to make an example out of him. What they don't realize is that our system is not one that aims to psychologically break every criminal. Otherwise, an unpaid parking ticket would be a death sentence.
Michael Vick did his time. Get over it, get over yourselves.
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