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Are fish not animals? Thanks a lot American Public School System.
by jeffnv 6y ago
Are fish not animals? Thanks a lot American Public School System.
- tyingq 6y agoExtending animal rights laws to fish would be a pretty impactful decision.
- Falling3 6y agoSo would extending them to farm animals. (I'm aware there are ostensible protections for farm animals, but they offer very little protection even if they were consistently enforced. Animals raised for food are often explicitly exempted from animal protections.)
- ainiriand 6y agoAs do the bulls in bullfighting. They have no rights or protection against torture. All those laws are only good as long as they do not interfere with human behavior. They only have rights as long as it is not uncomfortable for us.
- lopmotr 6y agoSounds like the Human Rights Act in New Zealand, and probably lots of countries. You're not allowed to discriminate based on race, sex, age, etc. except for all the cases where people routinely do discriminate in those ways. It pretty much just encoded the existing societal norms rather than actually changing anything.
- cies 6y agoImpact meaning, good for the environment? I hear again and again that some parts of the sea are nearly empty.
- ribosometronome 6y agoIf you read through the entire article, that is part of the point. It's an interesting take on how the judicial system was used in the 1800s with animal cruelty.
- protomyth 6y agoWell, I thought it was just the crappy reservation school that miseducated me, but I guess we both get to blame government classification for tradition and economics. A scarier subject you will not find. One of my favorite threads on HN has government classifications run to the absurd [edit] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12781157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12781157 [/edit]
- hamaluik 6y agoFish don’t actually exist ;) Wonderful book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50887097-why-fish-don-t-exist https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50887097-why-fish-don-t-...
- stan_rogers 6y ago...or "fish" is synonymous with "chordata". I'm happy to call myself a fish.
- boxed 6y agoI teach my kids this. its the only reasonable interpretation. Plus "reptile" is "amniota", making us reptiles.
- dan-robertson 6y agoFish are actually made from soil. When it slips from the riverbank into the water it, becomes a fish. At least, this theory plus history is the reason catholics may eat fish on their no-meat Fridays.
- ada1981 6y agoI thought the fish eating was economic policy to support the fisherman.
- jibal 6y agoAs the article that you didn't read notes, the title comes from a newspaper piece of the time that reflected "confusion about some basic biological concepts".