EPTJail for eating a live goldfish? - Page 3
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Pulselol
Canada1628 Posts
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:35 BearStorm wrote: Are you a vegetarian? If not you should become one so you can try to maintain the moral highground. By purchasing the common meat you find in the supermarket you are supporting the acts that are involved in making that meat availalbe to you. Just because you are not directly committing the cruel acts that happen in slaughterhouse does not make you any better if you have a healthier/affordable/obtainable alternative to the meat. I regularly consume meat, and I said I found the torture of animals for your own amusement disgusting behavior. What happens in the food industry is something I can't do anything about, and I look down on the people who torture animals for their own amusement. | ||
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Rickson
49 Posts
For fucks sake people, I really don't understand people who care about what other people eat. It's none of your fucking business at all. I get the activists who want the treatment of animals to be upgraded - some of the shit is repulsive - but what this man has done is absolutely fine. Does he have to kill the fish, gut it, and put it on a frying pan first before eating for it to be OK? | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
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HotShizz
France710 Posts
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:36 Tanukki wrote: I guess the problem is how he makes a spectacle out of eating strange animals. Not that I really care. Goldfish are pretty dumb anyways, they will even kill each other and eat their own babies if you once forget to feed them correctly. So I guess if you forget or are unable to feed your pets for some reason, you should go to jail too. Well, they are still capable of feeling pain. Although I still feel like he's an idiot, the RSPCA is more so, for doing things like attempting to bring Mario to justice over the skinning of tanooki. Edit: I wrote that entirely without realizing your username. | ||
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hns
Germany609 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:41 SolHeiM wrote: I regularly consume meat, and I said I found the torture of animals for your own amusement disgusting behavior. What happens in the food industry is something I can't do anything about, and I look down on the people who torture animals for their own amusement. Agree with you completely. Most people here are obviously not seeing that there is a difference between eating/killing animals because you're hungry and want/need to eat something and purposely doing harm to an animal for the pure "value" (which I personally do not see, but well) of entertainment. He could have eaten his goldfish if he needed to because he was hungry or whatever, there's no problem with that. The problem lies in eating the goldfish and filming it just for the fun of it. | ||
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reDicE
United States1020 Posts
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BearStorm
United States795 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:35 SolHeiM wrote: You missed the fact that I stated that I find torture or animal cruelty for your own amusement disgusting. I have nothing against the consumption of meat products, and I eat meat every day. Whatever happens in the food industry happens, and if a person goes to work in the food industry (whatever that may be) and thinks his job is fucking amazing because he gets to kill animals for a living, then I find that individual disgusting, not the collective "food industry" possey. Define amusement. I am sure an acceptable definition would have to be derived from pleasure. I eat meat instead of healthier/cheaper alternatives because of the pleasure I get from the food. How is that different from eating a goldfish? If you think it's because I am eating it for reasons that are not primarily for nourishment, then should I go to jail if I am full and I eat a meaty snack for my amusement from an animal that suffered? Does the fact that the animal is dead but suffered in the past change things? | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:38 Tobberoth wrote: Some people keep ants as pets, should I go to jail for stepping on one? The whole "pet" idea is just downright retarded, some animals aren't worth more than other animals just because people collectively decide they are fun to have in the house. No, you think some animals are worth less than others. That doesn't make it a fact, only your opinion. If you keep anything as a pet and are intentionally cruel to it, then yes I put you in the same category as the guy who are the live goldfish. Jailtime for killing insects, accidentally or not is not the same as torturing pets. | ||
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pedduck
Thailand468 Posts
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Terminal
United Kingdom2109 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:40 Pulselol wrote: Just a friendly reminder that humans didn't sit around and eat nothing to rise to the top of the food chain. Yeah because that's exactly what this guy is doing by making these videos, he's trying to survive. derp. | ||
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kianboon
Singapore6 Posts
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Bill Murray
United States9292 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:35 SolHeiM wrote: You missed the fact that I stated that I find torture or animal cruelty for your own amusement disgusting. I have nothing against the consumption of meat products, and I eat meat every day. Whatever happens in the food industry happens, and if a person goes to work in the food industry (whatever that may be) and thinks his job is fucking amazing because he gets to kill animals for a living, then I find that individual disgusting, not the collective "food industry" possey. "I eat meat every day" On April 23 2012 18:35 BearStorm wrote: Are you a vegetarian? If not you should become one so you can try to maintain the moral highground. By purchasing the common meat you find in the supermarket you are supporting the acts that are involved in making that meat availalbe to you. Just because you are not directly committing the cruel acts that happen in slaughterhouse does not make you any better if you have a healthier/affordable/obtainable alternative to the meat. "U a vegetarian, bro?" *facepalm* | ||
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Talho
Belgium592 Posts
edit : just found where it's done again, the city is called "Geraardsbergen". And it's even accepted by UNICEF as a world heritage, not the fish eating itself ofcourse, it's just a part of "krakelingen". A tradition that gets done every year | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 23 2012 18:45 BearStorm wrote: Define amusement. I am sure an acceptable definition would have to be derived from pleasure. I eat meat instead of healthier/cheaper alternatives because of the pleasure I get from the food. How is that different from eating a goldfish? If you think it's because I am eating it for reasons that are not primarily for nourishment, then should I go to jail if I am full and I eat a meaty snack for my amusement from an animal that suffered. If you go and butcher an animal while it's still alive where your primary reason of butchering the animal is because you think that's a fun thing to do, and you don't give a shit about eating it because hunger is not the reason for killing it, that is what I mean. I mention the torture and cruelty of animals for your own amusement to be disgusting an inhumane. If you kill an animal quickly and do not let it suffer, then that's alright. But if you let an animal die an agonizing death because you think that's fun, then you're a disgusting person. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts
Anyone clarify why he does this? | ||
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Zorgaz
Sweden2951 Posts
Tons of scientific research has proven that fish have great cognitive skills and are atleast as intelligent as cats/dogs. And it is proven that fish can feel pain. This is animal cruelty... I would like to live in a world where animal cruelty is punished. So yeah, punish the bastard. | ||
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whiterabbit
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BearStorm
United States795 Posts
You obviously didn't get it. I am not a vegetarian. | ||
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