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Dog Fighting and Compassion

By Thomas J. Crane

Calumet City, IL 

There is an element within our society that knows little of the meaning of the word humane. It is stated in the dictionary that "it is marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals."

I am referring to those who engage in the evilness of dog fighting. To engage in such an atrocity is to betray the loyalty and trust that has been established between humankind and the animal world over the ages. In order to betray such trust one surely has to have such a coldness of heart that they would lust for the blood and suffering of the lesser creatures of this earth. It is then that we should realize that the only thing that protects others within the human race from their wanton lust for pain and death is the law.

And yet, these individuals, who we can only look upon as having little in the way of love for life, oftentimes ask for the mercy and compassion of others during their own time of suffering and pain. If not for the fact that there are those among us who do not share their same twisted and perverted view of life and are also bound by a certain humanness toward their fellow humans, as well as those of the animal world, these purveyors of death and destruction would be allowed to languish and suffer just like the innocent creatures that they have mistreated and directed toward an untimely and grisly death.

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