Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway gave Michael Vick a key to the city. Enduring much criticism, Caraway proclaimed Vick to be a hero. For those of you who aren't sports fans or don't remember, Michael Vick is the pro football player who tortured and killed dogs for fun and profit.
Caraway says that Vick has paid his debt to society, has turned his life around, and is worthy of the honor. Maybe he has turned his life around. Maybe he has paid his debt to society. Maybe there is foregiveness. But there doesn't have to be adulation and honor for a man so twisted he saw nothing wrong with what he did. I don't care if he is now Saint Michael, he had to have been one sick wacko to do what he did, and we certainly shouldn't be holding him up as a role model. Let's not say to our kids, "Look how depraved you can be and still be a popular hero." If we must hand out these cheesy honors, let's find someone who's been a straight arrow from the beginning and hasn't had to turn his life around.
"Jaws fall open with Vick's key to the city." The Dallas Morning News; February 8, 2011; p. 1A.
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