How come we humans can kill fish and not feel sorry for the thing?

Question

It's been 6 months since I posted this question last... so here I go again...

OK, so you catch a fish, put it on the chopping board and with a quick stroke of a knife, you send it to fishy-heaven. And you do this with a straight face.

So why? Why is killing so fish not that big of a deal to us humans?

I have always had the theory that we humans can kill fish so unsympathetically because fish have no eye-brows. I mean, if you stab a cow or a pig, you feel sorry for them. And it's mainly because we can see their eye-brows raise up in pain. But when you gut a fish, it just lies there and stares back at you. You can almost swear that it's giving you that "Is that all you got?" look.

Answer 1

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that fish don't cry when you cut them unlike pigs or goats or any 4-footed animal.  

Answer 2

weird.

i think its wrong to kill ANY animal. i have been a vegetarian for years. i don't think people realize fish can feel pain too.  

Answer 3

human nature..we feel guilty when we destroyed something for the first time, but when we do it several times by force or choice, our senses become immune or are dead to it. We feel no more remorse.

Even seeing pretty naked women, the first time we see them, we feel so aroused not until we've seen too much, we feel bored to it, so we seek other women that could entice us men.I read about a young straight male p**n photographer who had a very s**y girlfriend and had such libido for her until he losses interest and suffer erectile dysfunction due to seeing so much pretty naked women in his life.

i remember shooting my first bird as a kid that i feel pity for it and thinking what would happen to its family until i have shot my 3rd bird and got excited over it that i want more for the dinner table.

Answer 4

LOL  I like that Is that all you got look lol

Makes the fish more tender

Well most of us grew up believing that fish cant feel...I know better now but it's just that growing up that's when it matters

Food is food...if you gotta gut a fish to live you wont feel too bad

Answer 5

I think you're a bit strange. People do feel sorry for cows and sheep or whatever. Heaps of people do. And they don't get 'stabbed' either. But it's a human-age tradition that we kill to eat and fish kill to eat as well as many other animals. Watch the lion king. You will understand

Answer 6

That is the main reason, why I wont make tusok-tusok to the fishballs.

Answer 7

your right!  good point about eyebrows.

Answer 8

hahahaha dude thats tight. ive never thought about that. hmmmm....

Answer 9

Think about it. In the very old ancient days, people did not have too many options. There were no feelings lost at all for any animal killed to survive.

I have never starved before but I will not care about animals emotions if I am starving close to death. (smile)

Answer 10

i feel horrible if i catch a fish. i would never attempt to kill it. but yeah i see what you are saying...hahaha!

Answer 11

This is a funny question!!!!But I love fish,so all you fishermen keep killin em and I'll keep eatin em!!!!!!

The eyebrow comment cracks me up!!!

Answer 12

We have to kill fish in order to eat it bro. (Not to be a smart azz).

Answer 13

doh! wish the simpsons will be the ones to say this word to you lol! peace! are you an ichtyologist?  

Answer 14

WHY SO SERIOUS?

Answer 15

For my family its the same with deer and rabbit so i think the whole eye brows thing is just weird..

Answer 16

One reason is I think because we sit there for like 5 hours trying to get him so when you do its like thats what you get you dam fish. Two I do fell bad when I am cutting them open and pulling on there guts. 3 the more you do something to less felling you have for it. Like people that kill people do not feel so bad after they have killed so many people.

Answer 17

Its just some people have a strong natural instinct of hunting

id feel bad to kill a fish

Answer 18

trust me i cant kill a fish it just bothers me. I always feel sorry for it and let it go when my parents force me to go fishing.

Answer 19

if it means feeding me i dont care what i kill

Answer 20

because they make love in our drinking water.

Answer 21

I know what you mean. I've failed twice at being a vegetarian. I'm going to try again when I move out and can pick what is for dinner. When I used to tell people that I was a vegetarian, they would be like "oh so you still eat fish and stuff?" and I would be like "no, fish still are animals and feel pain too."

Answer 22

the first time me and my husband bought a live chicken, we can't kill it (but killed it anyway cause that's what we're having for dinner), but we promised never to buy a live chicken anymore.