Saying dogfighting is no different than hunting is like saying burning someone alive is no different than barbecuing a steak. The all-too-typical statement by Stephan Marbury of the NAACP is nothing more than race-baiting because a black man stood accused of a heinous crime and white men are allegedly (in the eyes of the NAACP) the source of all evil. _______________________________________________________ "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it doth prosper, none dare call it treason." -Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612

Thanks for sharing your opinion and outlook on this "important" social issue. Or something like that. I guess some people are satisfied with a "squirt" of adrenalin for a thrill? I can suggest lots of thrilling things that won't harm or kill other life entities. But it does truly scale and describe your outlook on a large domain of things. Reflectively, I think this was meant as some kind of compassionate posting. Therefore you win a little slack. If Mikey Vick had prepared and roasted the dogs and eaten them --maybe you could compare this to hunting. I have hunted and killed everything and every kind of legally accessible "game" and all of it before I matured mentally. I no longer hunt, and of the thousands of animals I killed and ate -- none were truly killed because I needed to have their lives for my sustanence. I wish I could have every 'shot' back. If you do not "need" to hunt for food -- then in my opinion -- you don't need to hunt. There is nothing sporting whatever about hunting -- at all. I wrote an article about the American Sportsman and polar bear. I favor giving the "sporting victim" at least a "sporting chance." The best way to do that is to get rid of all firearms for your hunt. Also, you must eat the body of your victim. For polar bear, it is hoped they can eat the hunter, on the sporting basis. I know of no way to give rabbits a "sporting chance" except perhaps to suggest the "sporting" human hunter be allowed only an axe and clothing. (Pants, shirt, shoes, coat.) Let him build his hunting tools from his environment. I disagree on the "thrill" of the kill. And just what would you know or imagine about that? I think Vick is Sick. Mentally immature; pure species baggage. Perhaps people who do not seem to grasp the idea of sport and a sporting chance need to be taken on a survivalist's hunt? To satisfy what you would think as a lust for killing something? We have strange customs and laws and have many carry-overs from our hunter-gatherer time. If you kill something for sport -- where is the sport? I think the perspective is an illness. With total collapse of civilization (which might be just ahead in the CO2 dominated world) maybe there will be animals that will hunt you -- or that you can hunt for food. Hints of Human Intelligence seem to pop up now and then, but this is not one of the nows. Thanks for giving us insight into your character, your brain, your "mind?" and thanks for the opinion. You have mine, as well. Good luck. Keep writing.