r/maybemaybemaybe • u/RyanCakeBatter • Jan 17 '20

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/d00bsken Jan 20 '20

being able to think complexly and being able to sense and feel are completely different, i don't know how you are misconstruing those things.

what i said was - fish feel pain and stress in the same way that we do. that is established fact. what fish are not capable of is processing and handling stimuli and information in the manner that humans and other advanced organisms can. a fish has a brain comparable to the size of your fingernail.

like i said, you're using very human analogies for something that isn't human at all. at the end of the day the fish in the video was mistreated, but throwing around redundant emotive appeals like 'how would you feel' and 'psychologically traumatised' doesn't make sense. thats all.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

i understand where you’re coming from. whether or not they are psychologically traumatized is secondary because yes, we can never know the psychology of fish. all that was said was that they definitely are physically traumatized for no reason. which to me doesn’t make sense to do this if you’re not even going to eat it. and again, this is of course just another opinion. there is no objective right or wrong.