Must Love Dogs: Michael Vick Deserves His Second Chance

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Published: July 27, 2009

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... freedoms I'm lucky enough to enjoy as a citizen of the United States. 

I'm not rich.  I'm not famous.  I'm not politically connected.  I don't live in Michael Vick's world.  I can at best glimpse its hazy outline through the constant media coverage his life has become.

But what we both do share is a citizenship that affords us a second chance.

The term "debt to society" is thrown around mostly as a weak synonym for a prison sentence in our world.  We take it as a nothing term, a filler, a daytime Law & Order buzzword.

But what it means, and why it's such a fundamental principle to any functioning society, is that as an individual you've done something for which you owe your fellow man.

Paying that debt means more than being deprived of a luxury; it's not a time-out.  It's, at least in this system, a time period by which you sacrifice your freedoms because you've done wrong.  You have a debt that...

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