CONFESSION! I FLUSH FISH!

[Rbishop]

show me the evidence and unbiased proof of that...

 

[Rbishop]

many of you need to go back to school and see just where our adored fishey friend reside on the genetics chain of "pain"..which is basically a human assigned emotion to objects that can't respond to it in our terms.

 

[Michwol42795]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1106884/Three-second-memory-myth-Fish-remember-months.html

 

[Rbishop]

So..a newspaper article on something...no more than memory(instinct) in a rat to find the path to food...

 

[Michwol42795]

Genetically, everything is remarkably the same. Humans and Fruit Flies share almost 60% of the same genes, that's humans and FRUIT FLIES. People think species are a definite thing, but everything is so similar classification is nearly impossible. There's tons of trouble that goes into separating species. I'm not saying that fruit flies are as smart as humans, but our definition of "intelligence" may be a little off, I think everything is a lot smarter than we think.

 

[Rbishop]

Genetically, everything is remarkably the same. Humans and Fruit Flies share almost 60% of the same genes, that's humans and FRUIT FLIES. People think species are a definite thing, but everything is so similar classification is nearly impossible. There's tons of trouble that goes into separating species. I'm not saying that fruit flies are as smart as humans, but our definition of "intelligence" may be a little off, I think everything is a lot smarter than we think.

I promise not to flush the dieing fish that can solve a simple equation....

 

[Michwol42795]

I promise not to flush the dieing fish that can solve a simple equation....

Lol

 

[NeonFlux]

I flush dead fish only.

 

[DarrylR]

The perfect fish world of ethics is no longer perfect.

 

[bluekrissyspike]

i flushed a live fish back in my newbie days and i still have guilt about it. it swam back up and it had it's back bent in half and i felt like an ars. now if i must get rid of a fish i kill it first. the mistakes you rant about are mostly something newbies do but i'm sure some people just don't care. i dont' really think of my fish as decore. they are my pets and yes, some of them have names. the ones i care about i will go out of my way to save. then there are the smaller schooling fish that seem more interchangable. if one tetra is sick, i do what i have to do to prevent spreading disease to the whole tank.

i bet this thread will turn into quite an interesting debate.