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Is fishing mean?

Fishing with a hook is mean?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 58.8%
  • No

    Votes: 7 41.2%

  • Total voters
    17

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Biting onto something yummy and getting a hook in your mouth must be frightening and trying to swim away and getting reeled in must be painful.

Then wind up in someone's hands must suck! :(

For the poll question, just choose what you most lean towards.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Did Jesus make the fish?
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PureX

Veteran Member
Being forced to destroy life to maintain life is "mean", I suppose. But this is the universe we live in. And if we want to keep living in it, we have to live by it's demands. That being said, there is no reason to add to the suffering unnecessarily. Which is why a lot of folks don't eat meat or fish.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
St. John says of the Lord Jesus "all things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made," so I'd say yes. Those are some very cool pictures of fish.
Jesus also multiplied loaves and fishes allegedly. Now the multiplication of fish is quite remarkable, that he made fish out of nothing, or rather , made new nutritious fish out of dead fish.

He also filled the Apostle's nets with fish

According to the Gospel of Luke,[1] on the day of this miracle, Jesus was preaching near the Lake of Genesareth (Sea of Galilee), when he saw two boats at the water's edge. Boarding the one belonging to Simon (Peter), and moving out a little from shore, he sat and taught the people from the boat. Afterwards, he said to Peter:

Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.[1]

Peter answered:

Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.[1]

When they had done so, "they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break,"[1] requiring help from another boat. When Peter saw the large catch, which filled both boats almost to sinking point, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!"[1] Jesus responded "Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch men,"[1] after which Peter and his partners James and John left everything and followed Jesus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_catch_of_fish

Those fish may not have existed 20 minutes before the catch. It sounds to me like Jesus made living fish out of nothing, or he commanded the fish to go to the nets , right?? o_O:)
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Considering predation in the wild, its probably on par on how fish are acquired by the predator. It'd not really mean nor friendly imv but rather indifferent since a lot of people don't consider a view thats empathetic. It's just food, a kill.

Sometimes however they are thrown back into the water as im sure most are aware.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
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Do you think this one looks this way to attract a mate or got so beautiful by without a designer manipulating evolution?:

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This is my favorite? I fancy him/her. :) The Angler fish lives where there is no sunlight, in the pitch black, but is a light in the darkness. The light bulb on his head helps him catch fish. Weird that evolution would give him that:

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Spiderman

Veteran Member
Someone checked "no" on the poll.

I can't believe someone doesn't think it's mean to another creature to deceive it, put a hook through it's mouth intentionally, terrify it while it is being reeled in and has no escape, get your hands on it, and then (usually) kill it. :( How is that not mean and traumatic and a tragic tale for the victim/prey?o_O
 

Lain

Well-Known Member
Jesus also multiplied loaves and fishes allegedly. Now the multiplication of fish is quite remarkable, that he made fish out of nothing, or rather , made new nutritious fish out of dead fish.

He also filled the Apostle's nets with fish

According to the Gospel of Luke,[1] on the day of this miracle, Jesus was preaching near the Lake of Genesareth (Sea of Galilee), when he saw two boats at the water's edge. Boarding the one belonging to Simon (Peter), and moving out a little from shore, he sat and taught the people from the boat. Afterwards, he said to Peter:

Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.[1]

Peter answered:

Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.[1]

When they had done so, "they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break,"[1] requiring help from another boat. When Peter saw the large catch, which filled both boats almost to sinking point, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!"[1] Jesus responded "Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch men,"[1] after which Peter and his partners James and John left everything and followed Jesus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_catch_of_fish

Those fish may not have existed 20 minutes before the catch. It sounds to me like Jesus made living fish out of nothing, or he commanded the fish to go to the nets , right?? o_O:)

Them being made out of nothing is a common opinion and the one I hold on these miracles.
 

England my lionheart

Rockerjahili Rebel
Premium Member
Kurt Cobain wrote in a song “it’s ok to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings”,maybe a hook is better than a spear,our love of food doesn’t stretch to what we eat I guess.

In the UK freshwater sport fishing is catch and release,you catch it and let it go apart from trout and salmon,the money anglers pay to do this goes into maintaining our waterways and migration of trout salmon and eels so it’s a trade off of sorts.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Biting onto something yummy and getting a hook in your mouth must be frightening and trying to swim away and getting reeled in must be painful.

Then wind up in someone's hands must suck! :(

For the poll question, just choose what you most lean towards.

Is it mean for one fish to gulp down another fish while its still alive? Is it mean for a fish to gulp down a bug off the water top while its still alive?
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Kurt Cobain wrote in a song “it’s ok to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings”,maybe a hook is better than a spear,our love of food doesn’t stretch to what we eat I guess.

In the UK freshwater sport fishing is catch and release,you catch it and let it go apart from trout and salmon,the money anglers pay to do this goes into maintaining our waterways and migration of trout salmon and eels so it’s a trade off of sorts.
You can tell when a fish is scared.

They have feelings.

They are not robots.

And as @ChristineM taught me recently, they were the first creature to have a Vulva, in a lake in Scotland. :)
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Is it mean for one fish to gulp down another fish while its still alive? Is it mean for a fish to gulp down a bug off the water top while its still alive?
Humans are a creature with greater compassion that knows animal cruelty , and institutes animal cruelty laws.

It's mean when you intentionally terrify, mutilate, and slowly painfully kill another creature, as is done when fishing with a hook as sport.:mad:
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Humans are a creature with greater compassion that knows animal cruelty , and institutes animal cruelty laws.

It's mean when you intentionally terrify, mutilate, and slowly painfully kill another creature, as is done when fishing with a hook as sport.:mad:

No meaner than a cheetah taking down an antelope. We are predators and just like many species we hunt for food. We just have better ways of doing it.
 
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