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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Alan - While I would not equate anything resembling emotional pain to most animals, physical pain and suffering I do. Their nervous systems are developed well enough, and there reactions are little different from most humans.
I fish because I think the pain fish feel is reflexive and they do not react in a way that is consistent with pain in mammals. On the other hand I wouldn't toss a hook into a deer to catch it unless I was in danger of starving. It will feel pain.
Also I’m not sure if you read that article all the way...
Doesn’t really back up what you stated.
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I don't see where that would contradict what I was saying. It says that animal pain might be something different, and then ends with a question. If your answer is "yes, animal pain is something to be treated differently" or "no, animal pain should be treated the same as human pain" you are doing nothing but making a moral/ethics judgement (which is what I initially said). You yourself seem perfectly willing to put fish through a painful ordeal simply based on a peronal opinion that fish aren't feeling the same kind of pain. What's to stop someone from inflicting the same pain on a dog or cat because they don't think those animals feel the same kind of pain as humans? It's the exact same situation. I'm not condoning their actions, but I wanted to point out before everyone drops these kids in boiling oil, maybe things should be put in perspective. I mean, I've seen more compassion for terrorists.