I used to be such an asshole towards fish back in my days as a youngin'.

Whenever I caught something really small and we were on a boat, I'd take the paddle throw the fish up and hit a homerun with it . Wow, I was an outright asshole.

Yes.

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Originally posted by AustralianGQ im a failure with females...i will be the real 40 year old virgin i guarentee you

It doesn't seem to make much sense from an evolutionary standpoint that an animal like a fish couldn't feel pain - in that case they should've all died millions of years ago. So based on that logic alone, I'm inclined to say yes. Besides, the apparent absence of a specific part of the brain isn't much grounds to make that claim considering we have no way to determine how similar their brains are to ours in function.

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Originally posted by eROs.au Haha, not eating meat because animals feel pain? I haven't heard that one before

for real.




lets see if you guys are stuck in remote Mongolia with no food and can only buy a goat to eat whether you would strike a rock upon its skull.


my buddy had to.

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Originally posted by jupiterone I used to be such an asshole towards fish back in my days as a youngin'. Whenever I caught something really small and we were on a boat, I'd take the paddle throw the fish up and hit a homerun with it . Wow, I was an outright asshole.

Was? lol jk

I did it too, don't worry.

Well rather than sit here and try to argue a point it appears many people far more qualified than myself (or any of you) have already made for me, I'll just quietly withdraw from this thread, only checking in from time to time for a bit of a laugh.

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a fish is a vertebrae with a central nervous system hence their phylum classification chordata (spinal chord).

now i would assume that they would feel pain as they do have nerves. which would let htem know "hey there is a hook in my mouth" gtfo.

pain is an adaptation that allows animals to avoid harm and manage in their respective environments.

is their sensory system as complex as that of a mammal? definatley not.

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Originally posted by Omega_M I'm not projecting the human feeling of pain on a fish. Even with it's limited ability, the experience of dying is contrary to what the creature has been programmed for : to survive. The struggle for survival may be loosely defined as pain, because atleast in other higher forms of life and in humans, the process of dying, if experienced consciously, is characterized by pain. Such things are very hard to define objectively I guess.

I really want the marble to get to the end of the course but I can't. I'm trying (via my programing) to get it to happen but it won't work. In the same way lop a limb off an animal that doesn't feel pain and it just goes "fuck that just made moving harder".

But I suppose also if you lop someones arm off while they are asleep, waking up without an arm is traumatic even though you don't feel pain.

Otherwise the sea bass I just had tasted ace.

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