Help at all? When you fish, you send a sharp edge piercing through somethings mouth. Then you either disembowel it right there, or you let it suffocate and then disembowel it.
Fish that small would be caught with a net, not a hook, and I'm unaware of a market for disemboweled pet fish. I believe most people in the UK prefer their pets to be alive. Do you not think this is also the case in the US?
But pouring chlorine is "cruel".
If you had to euthanized a pet and were given the options between it being painlessly overdosed or suffocated with chlorine, which would you choose?
Just because the destination is the same doesn't mean the jpurney doesn't matter.
I'm pretty sure even the larger pet fish are still caught with nets. And the fish caught recreationally or for eating (on hooks or in nets) generally seem to be different types than the ones kept as pets.
But, yeah, I agree those points aren't relevant to the case at hand and can be disregarded.
But you're making a distinction that doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, the "friends not food" distinction is pretty arbitrary, but sentimentality is not required to make sense. Hell, people do it with mass-produced commodity objects that are literally interchangeable: "there are many like it, but this one is mine".
A fish is a fish. If you have to not kill "these as pets" cruelly by suffocating with bleach, then you have to not kill "those we eat" with suffocating by yanking them out of the water with hooks in their mouths.
No, I don't "have to". I could have an absolutely delicious pet halibut who I loved and cherished, and have no problem with anyone eating non-pet halibut. And if you ate Eric-the-Fish, knowing he was a pet, you're still an asshole regardless of how ridiculous it is to have a pet halibut.
You can't have it both ways and claim a moral high ground.
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Animal cruelty in the UK isn't an FBI matter because the United Kingdom is slightly outside the jurisdiction of a United States government agency, not because it's "a moral high ground".
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Animal cruelty in the UK isn't an FBI matter, love.
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I'm unable to parse your question.
Did you accidentally a word?
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Fish that small would be caught with a net, not a hook, and I'm unaware of a market for disemboweled pet fish. I believe most people in the UK prefer their pets to be alive. Do you not think this is also the case in the US?
If you had to euthanized a pet and were given the options between it being painlessly overdosed or suffocated with chlorine, which would you choose?
Just because the destination is the same doesn't mean the jpurney doesn't matter.
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I'm pretty sure even the larger pet fish are still caught with nets. And the fish caught recreationally or for eating (on hooks or in nets) generally seem to be different types than the ones kept as pets.
But, yeah, I agree those points aren't relevant to the case at hand and can be disregarded.
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Yeah, the "friends not food" distinction is pretty arbitrary, but sentimentality is not required to make sense. Hell, people do it with mass-produced commodity objects that are literally interchangeable: "there are many like it, but this one is mine".
No, I don't "have to". I could have an absolutely delicious pet halibut who I loved and cherished, and have no problem with anyone eating non-pet halibut. And if you ate Eric-the-Fish, knowing he was a pet, you're still an asshole regardless of how ridiculous it is to have a pet halibut.
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Animal cruelty in the UK isn't an FBI matter because the United Kingdom is slightly outside the jurisdiction of a United States government agency, not because it's "a moral high ground".
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