On Mar 10, 2:13 pm, Willi wrote:
Halfordian Golfer wrote:
Fish are killed when caught and released.
Yes, of course, this happens. Yet, Plato, it does not matter because
human's recreation justifies it.
By that reasoning Socrates, humans can stress, maim and kill animals
for pleasure alone, this includes dogs and cats.
No, No Plato you must understand, Fish are different.
Why are they different Socrates and where will we draw the line?

That is a question that if taken to the extreme, wouldn't allow us to do
much or anything "for pleasure alone."

We play a game of baseball, we kill living things.

We go for a walk in the park, we kill living things.

Where do YOU draw the line? Insects, one celled animals,

Or why stop at animals, how about plants?

Or even bacteria and viruses?

We ALL draw a line somewhere.

Willi

Agreed. Drawing that line. It's a very interesting and exceedingly
difficult thing to try and do. For one, it's not clear that there's
even a line for a demarcation of where we would 'wantonly' stress,
maim or kill an organism. I'm not sure what other organisms we even do
that for (to?) to be honest. But, if there is a line of what organisms
we'd wantonly stress, maim or kill I'm not sure how to draw it. What
is 'above' or 'below' any such line? Is a bird above or below a fish?
Is a fish above or below a reptile? What about a bat? So "mammals"
wouldn't be an organizational boundary either I'd think.

This gets to a really, really meaty question and I'm glad to ask you.

Why do we only 'fish' for fish?

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer