[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

You said you've "been many times." What? Did you have a girlfriend that liked it, and you just went to keep her company? Somebody force you to go? You went multiple times to watch something you don't like? You were there on business? It was held after church, and you stayed around to be polite?

Where I grew up, it was a normal activity. As a kid, you sometimes do what everyone else is doing. Friday or Saturday would come and that was just the thing to do. Since I thought it was normal, why would I have thought it was wrong? I have also said that as an adult, I see it different now and it's not something I'd ever go to or be involved with in any way. What I've said is that it just doesn't enrage me the same way it does some of you, partly because I don't care about dogs and partly because where I grew up, it was something we got used to. That is not to say that nobody else should feel the way that they feel though. Everyone's feelings are legitimately their own and I don't question your anger but the second someone says they aren't as angry, then our integrity and humanity and compassion gets called into question and people like you say we are ok with it because we are just like him, one step away from being murderers. The fact is that he was wrong and should pay the price for his mistakes. There have been three major cases in the NFL recently where players have gotten jail time (Vick, Stallworth, and now Burress). I've disagreed with what the sentencing has been in all three. Doesn't mean I condone anything. I don't condone dog fighting or the illegal gambling that was going on with it. I don't condone taking unlicensed guns into clubs and shooting yourself. I don't condone getting drunk and going out and running someone over. But I don't agree that the two people that didn't kill a human or even hurt another one should spend 2-3 years in prison and the one that did gets one month.