Being Informed Sucks
I was watching Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel this weekend and it just totally ruined my day. I knew that they were doing a whole segment on dog fighting and I knew there could be brutal footage, but I figured I wanted to be somewhat informed about it anyway. I am not sure why I felt the need to be informed about something that happens in such a minute percentage of the time around the country, but I did.
And think about that for a second. How much dog fighting can possibly be taking place around the country? Granted it is an awful thing, but with basically less than a handful of people nationwide participating in this activity, the amount of time that we have spent talking about it as a nation is completely disproportionate.
Anyway, I was watching the segment on Bryant Gumbel’s HBO show and the story hit a breaking point for me where I just couldn’t watch it anymore. It is one thing to have all these animals bred to fight for money. How these “Dog Men” get their pit bulls trained to fight like that is where these people truly hit their lowest points. As I am watching they start talking about how these trainers will kidnap people’s pets right out of the backyard, take them to their fighting pits, duct tape their mouths shut and allow their killer pit bulls to just ravage someone’s pet.
This didn’t totally surprise me, but then Real Sports showed a clip of one of these helpless animals basically using the black lab defense pose where they roll on their back, while a pit bull systematically circled it and dismantled someone’s pet.
After about three seconds of this clip, I looked at my remote, hit the stop button and erased the show from my DVR. But, the damage has already been done. Now, I have to think about this horrendous thing all the time, even though the occurrence of dog fighting, nationwide, is a really statistically insignificant type of occurrence.
Being informed sucks.
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