On 2018-02-04 7:21 PM, Bryce wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:53:51 -0500, Dave Smith

>> It's curious that so many people who think that killing mammals and
>> birds to eat them is cruel but that they have no concerns about the way
>> fish meet their doom. The suffocate in gill nets or in the hold of the
>> ships. Fishermen can bop them on the head and gut them while they are
>> still alive. If baby seals looked like lobsters they would stick them
>> into boiling water.
>
> So what you're saying is that pescatarians are halfway (only halfway)
> decent people and meat eaters are just plain monsters. I see your
> point.

No, I don't think you do see my point. I think that the pescatarians
have deluded themselves into thinking they are decent people because
they don't eat animals who met an agonizing death, but who don't realize
that the humanely slaughtered mammals and birds suffer a lot less than
the fish do.