Okay, you animal rights activists get your guns loaded. That is if you own guns, but most likely you do not since guns kill animals. I just cannot sit back and watch us go through the Michael Vick silliness again. Maybe I am just worn out from the Church of Michael Jackson I have been attending for over a week now. Maybe I am just struggling with watching the socialization of America for no reason. Maybe I am turning into Nancy Pelosi and therefore cannot think intelligent thoughts for more than a couple of seconds—kind of like a fish, hmmmm, I haven’t thought of that. Maybe Nancy is a fish. That would explain a lot.
I digress.
I am sure Steve McNair was a nice guy and this blog is not aimed at him personally. Look beyond that at the issue I am really after.
Watching the news reports on the murder suicide of Steve McNair, another fine American family man celebrity, and that girl whose name we cannot remember because she killed our hero, I was taken back by the mind doctors who wanted to explain away this behavior on childhood problems.
The question was asked and lightly dodged regarding why Steve McNair would be having an affair; we used to call that committing adultery. He had issues with intimacy, blah, blah, blah. What happened to this idea—stay home with your wife and live according to accepted moral norms. You commit adultery you open the door for bad things to happen.
There was no outrage at how a person could do something as despicable as kill another person. There was no outrage that a husband, with children, would so blatantly destroy his family and his children with such outrageous behavior.
From that story the news went to the latest dog fighting ring in the Midwest. The reporter came back from the report wondering how humans could be so cruel. She was outraged that someone would fight dogs and kill the losing dogs.
Again, I do not hold to cruelty to animals. I agree with it being illegal to fight animals. I think it is a moral crime as well. My family has several dogs we have gotten from the pound, thus saving their lives.
I think, however, that outrage over killing some animals while taking the killing of humans as something that stems from childhood issues is the outrage here. We heard the same thing in the defense of King Michael. He had a tough childhood. Best I can tell he was still having his childhood, therefore we should not blame it.
It was his father. I think the best answer for this defense, is grow up and get over it!
As for the outrage of killing dogs, are we so far gone that we can watch people die everyday and still dedicate our lives to defending animals.
Grow up and get over it.
