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blackprophet|1410285374|3747801 said:There are many reasons why battered women stay with an abusive partner.
For those of you on twitter check out the hashtags #whyistayed and #whyileft. Really enlightening conversation going on.
I find it interesting that Michael Vick still being in the league being a breaking point for some people. At the time of his arrest there was MULTIPLE convicted murderers playing in the league. What Vick did was wrong, but there are many more in the league who did things that are much worse. The NFL has a long history of sweeping crimes of their players under the rug. They have a long history of sweeping many things under the rug (i.e. concussions) that they are now being brought to task for. Michael Vick just happened to be high profile, as is this case. And this case is only high profile because it has been contrasted against other recent suspensions for recreational drug use. At least once a year one of these domestic abuse cases pops up in the league.
Its a long standing problem, that wont go away anytime soon.
I understand the point you're trying to make...that there are many MORE people currently playing who also did horrible things.
ETA: oh, and I should add...they should get kicked out too. They should not be allowed to have the privilege to make that kind of money.
But even not knowing what any of those OTHER players did - I equate what Vick did on the same exact level. With those kinds of things there is not "less" worse...animal cruelty is on the same level as child cruelty or murder or whatever else these people may have done.