Sadists Never Change

I hate football season for a number of reasons that are both selfish and inane. But there is one good reason to roll my eyes at this 'wholesome' American sport. It employs a number of sadists. Still none anger me quite the way Michael Vick does. Maybe it's because of the hysterical way fanboys and fangirls rally around him. "But he served his time!" they cry like petulant children.  "People who serve their time deserve a second chance!"

Please.

Are we really pretending that Michael Vick served some kind of actual penance for his unspeakable crimes? That a year and a few months is enough time to come to ones senses and realize that starving and torturing more than forty innocent creatures might have been a step in the wrong direction? It's ridiculous. But even more amusing is the entire notion itself. That time served means that society should always forgive and forget.

First it implies that people always do appropriate time for their crimes. I can think of a number of rape victims I know who would beg to fucking differ. Furthermore, the second chances one is given by society relies very little on ‘time served’ and more on ‘crimes committed’. For a child molester, “served his time” is rarely a reason given when advocating a second chance. In truth “time served” means about as much as "justice is blind".  We both know they are overly simplified concepts that rarely give light to true injustice.

Michael Vick tortured animals for shits and giggles. More than that he has admitted to personally drowning or hanging up to 8 dogs. 

To hold a squirming dog under water until it dies you must have a fundamental disconnect between moral society and yourself. There is no coming back from this shit the same way there is no coming back from beating and killing an infant.

The NFL has employed Vick again and Obama even called him to express some kind of ‘Congratulations’. Well fuck them both for that, really. Fuck them for being too short sighted to realize that people who torture and murder animals are sadists who don’t just stop killing because they got a slap on the wrist a few years back. He will kill again. He will torture again. They always do.

My own dog is a shelter puppy who was also abused before I got him. Loud noises leave him shaking, yelling makes him hide and anyone with a walking cane leaves him cowering. It has taken a lot of pointed training and rehabilitation to get him to the point where he can even stand to be alone for more than five minutes.

Dogs are incredibly selfless, loving creatures. If you can torture one, you can torture anything. You are dangerous, amoral and deserve to be locked up for a hell of a lot longer than a year or two. Which, by the way, is less than some pot dealers are serving. But hey, justice served, dude bro.