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Do fish feel pain?
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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 15, 2024 at 4:58 pm
(March 15, 2024 at 4:39 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Would it be better to say "respond to damage to the body"?

Maybe, but that's not the question the OP asked and has declined to clarify what he means.
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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 15, 2024 at 6:56 pm
(March 15, 2024 at 4:58 pm)Jackalope Wrote:
(March 15, 2024 at 4:39 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Would it be better to say "respond to damage to the body"?

Maybe, but that's not the question the OP asked and has declined to clarify what he means.
So ignore the op. Orphaned threads are fair game.
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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 16, 2024 at 5:50 am
(March 15, 2024 at 11:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I feel pain just reading this thread. Fish are lucky.

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I agree with you. Birds and mammals other than humans are less lucky than humans. But fish, and most animals (that don't feel pain), are luckier than humans.
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#34
RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 16, 2024 at 6:23 am
(March 16, 2024 at 5:50 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(March 15, 2024 at 11:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I feel pain just reading this thread. Fish are lucky.

Boru

I agree with you. Birds and mammals other than humans are less lucky than humans. But fish, and most animals (that don't feel pain), are luckier than humans.

You miss my point. If fish could read this thread, they WOULD feel pain.

And you still haven’t told us what you mean by ‘pain’, which would seem to be the basis for making any kind of argument on this topic.

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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 16, 2024 at 10:19 am
(March 16, 2024 at 5:50 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(March 15, 2024 at 11:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I feel pain just reading this thread. Fish are lucky.

Boru

I agree with you. Birds and mammals other than humans are less lucky than humans. But fish, and most animals (that don't feel pain), are luckier than humans.

If you think fish are luckier you might want to find someone who will perform a lobotomy.
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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 16, 2024 at 3:05 pm
(March 16, 2024 at 10:19 am)brewer Wrote:
(March 16, 2024 at 5:50 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I agree with you. Birds and mammals other than humans are less lucky than humans. But fish, and most animals (that don't feel pain), are luckier than humans.

If you think fish are luckier you might want to find someone who will perform a lobotomy.

Didn't he already?
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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 16, 2024 at 4:47 pm
(March 16, 2024 at 3:05 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:
(March 16, 2024 at 10:19 am)brewer Wrote: If you think fish are luckier you might want to find someone who will perform a lobotomy.

Didn't he already?

Nature did what it could, he needs something extra.
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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 17, 2024 at 7:36 am
I think a much more meaningful question is "does FlatAssembler feel embarrassment?"
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RE: Do fish feel pain?
March 17, 2024 at 12:55 pm
Flatty, maybe you could experiment: get two aquariums, fill both with the same species of fishes, then torture fishes in one aquarium (like beat the shit out of them every day and even pluck out their fins), and if those fishes that you tortured fear you when you come close then they can feel pain.
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March 17, 2024 at 2:10 pm
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