Thread: I think my fish is dying

Originally Posted by Atmosfear

Care to explain how you differentiate between the value of the life of a fish in a bowl and the value of the life of a fish from the ocean sliced open on your dinner plate? How about the cows, chickens, and hogs we eat on a regular basis? Have you ever slapped a mosquito or stepped on a cockroach? How many substances do you eat in a day that weren't alive or generated at the expense of some living thing?

Life has surprisingly little value if you consider it objectively.

I'm a vegetarian, FYI. You guess why. And sure I've slapped a mosquito but let's not take this to extremes. I didn't voluntarily bring the mosquito into my life to care for.

My point is why be needlessly cruel to any pet, no matter what it is? A fish might not be a dog, and as sole mentioned you can't interact with it in the same way, but it's still alive and capable of feeling discomfort. If you don't know how to take care of your $5000 dog and it suffers, or you don't know how to take care of your $5 fish and it suffers, both are just as needlessly cruel since there's tons of information out there on the subject. Also my cat is a shelter cat, a regular domestic short hair, born profoundly deaf and in need of a tummy tuck because he's got a bad case of the neuter paunch. When he was little I paid $600 to get him cured of kennel cough, and he's the sweetest, funniest, most affectionate cat anyone could ever want. I'd pay that and 10 times that again if he needed it even though he's not "perfect" - I love him just as much, if not more than, any purebred cat I could have gotten for thousands of dollars because he's perfect to ME.

Anyone's views on animals isn't what this was about though, and I'm not going to start a flame war with you Atmosfear, so I'm not going to comment on it anymore. How is your fish doing now?