| I don't really care about animal cruelty as long as it's "out of sight, out of mind". This series puts it "in sight, in mind" and that is kinda hard to get past. I think I could deal with this kinda thing for commercial fishing, but for recreational fishing the fact that they can get off on this makes them seem almost psychopathic. Not to mention Japan's animal rights laws seem significantly weaker than my home country's. |
Reply to FutoiOtaku
Those poor hand drawn non existent fishies went through hell! There should be long jail sentences for 14 year olds for eating them!
| @FutoiOtaku The entire point of fiction involves suspending our disbelief and treating these drawings of non-existent beings as real. |
| You started watching anime about fishing and are outraged that it depicts what every fisherman does. Vegan activist moment. |
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Reply to Piromysl
You started watching anime about fishing and are outraged that it depicts what every fisherman does.
Vegan activist moment.
Vegan activist moment.
| @Piromysl May I present to you the literal first sentence of my post. Tenderizer79 said: I don't really care about animal cruelty as long as it's "out of sight, out of mind". |
Tenderizer79 said: @Piromysl May I present to you the literal first sentence of my post. Tenderizer79 said: I don't really care about animal cruelty as long as it's "out of sight, out of mind". That doesn't make what you wrote any less dumb. |
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| I mean, it's a show about fishing, what do you expect gonna happen? Like, if it's an anime about teachers and their teaching method but then it skips from morning to afterschool. Dumb as hell. Just drop it if you don't like it. |
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| Why would it somehow be better or less cruel if it was commercial fishing versus a school club or other group of friends or random individuals doing it? That doesn't make any sense to me. Fish are commercially sought after and harvested so that they can be processed, packaged, and sold because there is a demand for them, because people eat them. It's a food and nutritional source. These girls are eating them, while enjoying the taste and deriving sustenance from the nutrients. It's the cycle of life and humans are omnivores. What's wrong with that? I'm not against the fishing or meat industries either, but I can much more easily see and entertain a logical argument against those rather than demonizing individuals doing it for themselves like in the olden days before mass industrialization and commercialization. Lone private fishers and hunters seem way more worthy of respect and "noble" in the idealized romantic sense than a faceless company in it solely for profit. It would only be unnecessarily cruel and pointless to me (the act itself if it occurred in real life, not necessarily the portrayal of characters doing it if it had another artistic point) if they were catching fish just to deprive them of oxygen to kill them for the sake of killing them, and then just leaving them them to die and rot on land or throwing them in the garbage. Now that would be something more in line with the spirit of what you're saying, to me. Based on your first sentence about largely being fine with it all as long as it's all "out of sight, out of mind", I think it's a case where, like a lot of modern folks, you're simply squeamish and sensitive over the sight of it due to not being exposed to fishing, hunting, farming, etc. and how food is regularly obtained daily by people worldwide still. If you live in a developed country in an urban or suburban area, then you're likely just disconnected from the food cycle and its point of origin, so everything involving food harvesting and processing seems foreign as you're used to just seeing everything post-processing neatly packaged and wrapped on the shelf of a grocery or convenience store. It's mostly a result of a life of ease, comfort, and privilege, especially if you grew up middle to upper middle class or wealthy. There's nothing wrong with that being your background (it's mine too), but it doesn't give people in that position a moral superiority over others just because they're uncomfortable with the sight or idea of something so would rather just pretend it's not happening (often while still reaping the benefits of others' labor as the purchaser on the consumer end, for all non-vegetarians and non-vegans). |
WatchTillTandavaOct 8, 2024 12:02 PM
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