Why do you come to this conclusion?
2007-09-04 13:55:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
They have feelings. It's more like it's okay to eat fish because they don't matter.
2007-09-04 14:02:16 · answer #1 · answered by the Boss 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
some say dogs do not have feelings, but truely we know that they do. my dog would not eat all day while i was at work, and would run to his bowl to eat after greeting my return home. once i went to jail and was gone for two and a half days, he ate nothing till i returned. there are many other examples. maybe the extra money in the law suits, for the people of the dogs that had died from the bad dog food that was going, for pain and suffering of the animals would have been given if their lawyers were a little better at theier job, and had convinced the judge that dogs do have feelings, because it is very visible that they do. but aw, maybe he got a kickback for not fighting that simple case--screw the people who are hurting from their loss.......yeh---why should fish be any different. do they not learn eventually how not to get hooked while stealing your bait. do they multiply because they feel some kind of need to. do they try to find a place to hide in a storm. do they run from you if you try to catch them with your hands, or a spear. i beleave they know pain. and i can imagine that they also know love. go and think deeply about every thing you know about fish. and go find a place where you can see them clearly and sit and watch them. then send out the energy of your question to them and allow yourself to be given the true answer by the next things to come....this takes very little faith, its easy, but you must beleive to receive you answer................fish fight for territory, is that not feeling
2007-09-04 14:21:12 · answer #2 · answered by frame 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought it was okay to eat fish because they don't have any feet. Guess I was wrong.
I like fish, it's good fried or baked or sauteed.
I tried to be a vegetarian once but I just like meat too much.
2007-09-04 15:03:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fish have feeling!
2007-09-04 14:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by kayneriend 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What do you mean by feelings? Whether or not they have emotions is probably of less moral importane than whether or not they can feel pain. There is good scientific evidence that they do feel pain.
The Boss's answer is either contradictory or totally amoral. He says they "do not matter." He apparently means that they do not matter morally. But if they can feel pain, they do matter morally. The ability to suffer automatically places a moral burden on others to not cause that suffering. To claim that a being that can suffer does not matter morally is just to utter a total contradiction, if one actually cares about morality. Only if you do not care about morality can you not care about the suffering of a being that can feel. This position is not contradictory, but it is, by definition, amoral.
2007-09-04 14:37:20 · answer #5 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. They have 'feelings.' I come to this conclusion because I have some sense.
2007-09-04 14:03:02 · answer #6 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Feelings can be defined as sensation, if something were eating the fishes tail would it feel pain and try to swim away? Probably. Would it self examine and consider its life and demise and its contribution to fishdom? Probably not.
2007-09-04 14:08:05 · answer #7 · answered by Ron H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-09-04 14:35:32 · answer #8 · answered by Batman 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I asked my fish, and he was hurt that we'd even consider it.
2007-09-04 14:14:58 · answer #9 · answered by dr_usual 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no.. fish have feelings.. i can show you my goldfish in pain! take him out of the water and its like us drowning.. i eat fish cause they are yummy...
2007-09-04 14:05:51 · answer #10 · answered by jeselynn_81 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋