Resolved: Dogfighting should be legalized in the United States

Now it is time for me to respond to your constructive piece. Do you not know the rules you set out? You first talk about in what case things should be legalized. You say if there is a direct benefit to humanity, then you say if there is not a direct benefit to humanity it should still be legalized because humans have the right to do whatever with their property. You say human society is and should be in favor of humans over animals. You say we eat meat because it benefits us so we should allow people to let dogs fight. You compare dog fighting to eating chips. Unhealthy yet legalized. As long as other human rights aren't violated they can do whatever they want. I say no, since you are saying that we should have the right to do whatever we want with our property there is a problem. Dogs are living, chips and meat are not. Potatoes were living also now they are dead and in a bag of chips. Meat was alive also, now it's dead and in a package. Dogs are still living and it is not right for them to kill themselves for the sport of just humans who love watching blood and pain. Your argument in this case is no good then. Next in the point of economic benefits. I admit this point is valid, it will help the economy. But as I stated so will starting your own business, walking to work, taking the bus, saving power and water, paying your taxes, planting a garden the list goes on and on, dog fighting however is not on the top of my list and it shouldn't be on the governments either. You tell us it will give the dogs something to do other then sit around in a kennel all day. Most dogs in shelters aren't fighting dogs. They are given care and comfort to the best of peoples abilities there. If you want to do something for them adopt a pet and give it love after all it is a living thing not a hunk of meat or a bag of chips. Or volunteer, but shelters help our economy by giving people jobs so if you get rid of dogs for fighting you'll kill some jobs along with it. Obviously most of the population is against dog fighting already, otherwise I would be arguing that it should be illegal and not that it should stay illegal. Dogs are already taken from shelters to do better things. Families, farmers, the army, the blind, hospitals, police, airports, security these are more beneficial to humans then dog fighting will ever be. There is a fine line between beneficial and just plain useless, dog fighting is more on the useless side then the items above therefore it should stay illegal. How do you know what is preferable to a dog? Can you read his mind? No therefore you have no evidence if a dog enjoys fighting. You say you know there is a difference between human rights and animal rights, yet you don't believe the bible. So wouldn't you believe we descended down? Dogs and humans both have red blood, feelings, emotions similar internal systems. Would you let your own daughter or son fight themselves to death? Why not? Because it's wrong! So is dog fighting. If we bring back dog fighting we'll have to bring back bear baiting, cock fighting, and a whole wagon load of other similar blood sports. It's not right, money isn't everything. You can't eat money and expect to live very long, without money the world would still go on. Economics is all your argument is based on and I admit it would help, but not enough of the population is interested so it wouldn't help very much. You say if it was legalized you wouldn't become a dog fighter. I wouldn't either. So if you wouldn't why do you support it? To support the right of others you say but what others? There's only a very small minority of people who will actually do this since most people actually have real jobs and if you legalize it, the money the dog fighters get will be much much less since the risk is less, so it would be a waste of time for people to be a dog fighter. Another point I would like to bring up is that you and I both know the breeds a true pit bull is, these are the best fighters and people won't go to shelters to get them they will breed them at home. Posing a risk that more dogs will go to shelters then come out, making your argument weak. Your copy of info from the sites regarding dog bites I believe adds nothing to your case. Your saying that since dogs attack people they should not be put down but rather used for dog fighting. You say pit bulls are most responsible for the attacks. Well that's because the dogs were bred to be aggressive to fight bulls for the blood sport. It is again not there fault but maybe we should have never bred them to be that way. If we had never allowed such heinous blood sports to be legal in the first place those dog attacks as you say most of them wouldn't happen. It will not reduce the dog attacks on humans since the legalization would make breeders breed more of them. I would also like you to watch your spelling. They didn't invent auto correct for no reason. You make a good argument however there are many flaws in what your saying. The conclusion I believe will be a good one! I thank you for the timely response and hope to hear from you soon.