On 2018-02-04 8:43 PM, Bryce wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 20:35:29 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2018-02-04 8:32 PM, Bryce wrote:
>>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 19:33:47 -0500, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> So you're eating calves and lambs because you feel sorry for the fish.
>>> I've underestimated you, Dave!
>>>
>>
>>
>> So.... you are taking strange leaps of logic....
>
> Ideally, I shouldn't eat fish either. But I feel less empathy towards
> fish than towards mammals and birds. That's why I draw the line there.
> I'd be a better person if I also didn't eat fish or eat cheese.
>

I don't know if you would be a better person for it. I don't discount
the idea that you might think that you are,


> Anyway, it's strange when meat eaters judge pescatarians. It should be
> the other way around. You'll eat anything, without any scruples. And
> so does everybody else here. That's why I'll only accept judgment from
> vegetarians and vegans

The only judgement is in the form of questioning how someone can refrain
from eating meat on the grounds that the critters suffer but having no
concern about the horrific suffering that fish go through when they are
caught in a net or on a hook and then thrown into the hold.