On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 20:59:37 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.

And I answered that question.

But why do you eat anything, knowing how much all these animals
suffer?