Stuff I hate

I can't believe this shit that opinion columnist Drew Sharp wrote about Michael Vick. Allow me to explore this further.

There will never be a clean slate for Michael Vick, nor should there be. His apologists equate his release from federal prison sometime today as washing away the stains of his heinous transgressions. Punitive debt paid, he's somehow owed the opportunity to continue his high life before the feds exposed his sordid sub-life.

I know, right? Can you believe these apologists think he has some sort of right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness after repaying his debt to society? Fucking Constitution supporters.

Vick has a right to make a living, but playing in the NFL remains a special privilege dutifully earned.

I thought that privilege was earned by being good a football. Apparently I forgot about the morality and ethics powwow that all incoming rookies must pass. Michael Strahan almost wasn't allowed to join the league when he said he'd take one of the last remaining life jackets on a sinking boat for himself.

Is Vick truly appreciative of all he's lost? Prove it now that he's out of jail. Have him spend another year as an average layman earning modest wages trying to make ends meet.

The NFL is no longer a football league that exists for the purpose of entertaining fans and making money, it is now socially obligated to enact policies that make felons appreciate life more. It's kinda like the Jigsaw Killer if he organized sporting events.

Give him a real taste of what second chances at redemption are for the rest of us who don't run a 40-yard dash in 4.3 seconds or rifle a football 70 yards.

What does this have to do with anything? The world in the year 2002, in which Vick earned insane amounts of money with his physical talent, was in fact the real world. How will putting arbitrary and artificial limits on his employment opportunities and earning potential teach him anything about the real world? If a felon who gets out of prison is particularly charming, should it be illegal for him to use his charm to get ahead in the world in his first year outside?

Perhaps the additional humility wipes away the last vestige of celebrity entitlement and Vick emerges as a truly repentant individual.

Yeah, losing a $130 million contract and getting raped for 2 years straight has inflated his ego to monstrous proportions! It's about time we take his ass down a peg!

The issue isn't the value of a human life compared to an animal. The issue is strictly criminal intent.

He would have spent a lot more than 2 years in prison if he viciously murdered a human, so I'm pretty fucking sure that actually is an issue.

NFL defensive end Leonard Little got drunk following a birthday party, got behind the wheel of a car and tragically took the life of an innocent woman in another car in 1998. Little pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. He served 90 days in jail and resumed his professional career.

Why should Little get another chance in the NFL while Vick forever sits since Vick "only killed dogs?"

But it wasn't Little's intention to deliberately take another life when he took the wheel that night. If it was, prosecutors could've charged him with first-degree murder and, if convicted, he'd remain in prison to this day.

You cannot look at Vick's situation through Little's legal prism.

Oh fuck no, I know you didn't go there. Yes, Leonard Little didn't want to kill anyone that night, but he kinda got arrested for drunk driving again in 2004. How in the fuckity cotton candy fuck can you defend the morality or intentions behind a man who keeps drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car after he already killed someone? What the fuck, man? Seriously...

Running an illegal gambling ring and viciously murdering losing dogs is fucked up and all, but this column is obviously the ranting of a dog lover who's trying to twist some type of logic around his personal biases.