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Recognizing that someone was guilty of a crime does not mean you can't feel that the crime shouldn't be illegal.
I'll happily wear a t-shirt that says "free all non-violent drug offenders." And I'll do it on national TV if given the chance.
Personally, I have a hard time fitting animal cruelty laws into my fundamental ideas of government and criminalization. For purely selfish emotional reasons I want the act criminalized but I admit to having to twist myself into a bit of a pretzel to justify it without simply saying "because I think so." A lot of people don't think dogfighting should be a crime and that even if he admitted to it Vick didn't really do anything wrong.
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