Harry Halibut
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...but if we put a hook in a dog or a horse it's "evil".
Aquatic life has been around for a lot longer that terrestrial life, and aquatic organisms - particularly the vertebrates - are as complex in biological terms as anything that lives on dry land. Yet people tend to think of it as worthless, or irrelevant, and often as a thing not worthy of the same consideration as terrestrial life.
Yet people go bananas about cruelty to cats, dogs, bears and just about anything as long as it's covered in fur.
Not that I'm complaining - I can't abide cruelty.
But how can we explain the different cultural norms and attitudes we apply to things that live under water and things that live above it? Why does society turn a blind eye to cruelty to one thing but get worked up about cruelty to another?
Aquatic life has been around for a lot longer that terrestrial life, and aquatic organisms - particularly the vertebrates - are as complex in biological terms as anything that lives on dry land. Yet people tend to think of it as worthless, or irrelevant, and often as a thing not worthy of the same consideration as terrestrial life.
Yet people go bananas about cruelty to cats, dogs, bears and just about anything as long as it's covered in fur.
Not that I'm complaining - I can't abide cruelty.
But how can we explain the different cultural norms and attitudes we apply to things that live under water and things that live above it? Why does society turn a blind eye to cruelty to one thing but get worked up about cruelty to another?