Jul 12, 2020
12:02:28pm
12:02:28pm
I don’t think it matters. “Pain” is only triggered by nerve endings. It doesn’t actually exist outside of the brain that
has capacity for it. The fish brain doesn’t have the structure or capacity for the kind of pain/suffering that we understand.
What their brain experiences is nothing like that. I’ll bet the closest thing we experience to the “pain” triggered by a fish’s nociceptors is the involuntary knee jerk you have when a doctor tests your reflexes. A stimulus and a response without the higher-level functions of fear and anxiety.
What their brain experiences is nothing like that. I’ll bet the closest thing we experience to the “pain” triggered by a fish’s nociceptors is the involuntary knee jerk you have when a doctor tests your reflexes. A stimulus and a response without the higher-level functions of fear and anxiety.
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So your argument is to kill the fish, rather than to release it, because that’s somehow more ethical?
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I’m all for people keeping medium sized fish. It does pain me to see people keeping the huge trout though...
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Interesting that you had a fish swallow a fly. I’ve never seen that. 99% of the time it’s on the outer jaw
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“Pain” and more specifically “suffering” exists in the mind (brain) and is only signaled from the nerve endings. Fish
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