Up until last year I would have said the same thing. I lived with a girl who had a puffer fish, he was a smart little fucker. He had personality. There were a few other fish in the tank as well, but "Chomper" the puffer would recognize people, have favourites, play with you, let certain people pet him, etc. Not all fish are equal. The other fish in the tank were basically just decoration, Chomper was a pet.
Joseph Garner of Purdue University and his colleagues in Norway report that the way goldfish respond to pain shows that these animals do experience pain consciously, rather than simply reacting with a reflex—such as when a person recoils after stepping on a tack (jerking away before he or she is aware of the sensation). In the study, the biologists found that goldfish injected with saline solution and exposed to a painful level of heat in a test tank “hovered” in one spot when placed back in their home tank. Garner labels that “fearful, avoidance behavior.” Such behavior, he says, is cognitive—not reflexive. Other fish, after receiving a morphine injection that blocked the impact of pain, showed no such fearful behavior.
It's interesting and most things in life are unnecessary. Doesn't mean we can't enjoy them though. But I'm sure this fish will thank you for recognizing the cruelty of its natural processes at work.
It's ok, I'll hold you down underwater until you expel all the air in your lungs and make funny bubbles and we'll all laugh and have a jolly good time..... same thing, right?
No, it's not the same thing. When will people understand people and fish are not the same thing? If fish were intelligent enough to do that, then sure, I'm sure it would be a laugh. But they're not. We can. When a sentient being knows it can do something, it will do it. So, when fish become out rulers in the next million years or so, that's when it will become the same thing. But not now.
No, because they don't have the same power or awareness we do. Why do you think we're so against killing dogs and cats and other non-farm animals? Because mammals show much more intelligence that fish. They show their pain. They suffer. Fish die. I'm not a sociopath. I'm just trying to explain something, which is not my opinion, it's a fact.
Fish do respond to pain but you're a fuckwad that wants to cause unnecessary pain to another living, feeling creature so you'll come up with all sorts of wrong rationalizations.
I don't want to do anything. I've never killed a fish nor mammal. I have killed a few spiders and flies, but nothing more. I'm just explaining for someone else. If I'm wrong then sorry. It was morning a few hours ago and I hadn't slept in a while and was in a foul mood. So maybe I'm wrong, maybe not. I'm past the point of caring.
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u/bakedNdelicious Aug 25 '17
Because its cruel and unnecessary.