To Fish or Not to Fish

Hey calcynic, funny that u posted this discussion on mylot.com. Guess you need help in challenging your young son's logic. Hmmm.. If i were in your position, I will say that if killing animals is a very cruel act then we should not eat animals, watch our steps so that we do not step on ants, let mosquito suck our blood as killing is always killing no matter what the reason is.

I think he is very wrong as killing deer is one thing and fishing and eating your catch is completely different. If you kill for food fine, and eating fish you caught is also fine. why would it be wrong.

Fishing is something my dad used to do with us when we were kids. He promised us it would be the most relaxing thing we ever did, as a sport. Imagine 4 boys, 1 girl and Mom and Dad going on a fishing boat to relax. Mom still laughs at her stories of how all of us kids would get our hook and line stuck in a tree while casting and Dad had to come to our rescue. Dad hardly ever got to"relax" while fishing. Nonetheless, I know he thoroughly enjoyed the experiences of fishing with his 5 children. I love to fish to this day...um...more like feed the fish. I hardly ever catch anything and my bait usually gets stolen, probably because I am daydreaming and don'totice the tugs on my line. Just being around the water relaxes me. If I do catch anything I always throw it back. I have no clue how to clean a fish and really don't think I would want to clean one. After seeing Bambi, as a child and an adult, I could never kill a deer, even for food. I would be worrying if I was killing "Bambi's" mom or dad! Plus, it seems more evil to stalk the prey and then shoot it. But, maybe the fish feel the same way! PEACE

Hook and release is fishing for sport. Hook and eat is necessity. Deer hunting is only the latter. Can't exactly shoot the deer and expect it to live.

I personally don't see anything wrong with hunting or fishing. Now if you went out in the fields and just slaughtered the game and left it in the field, I think that is wrong. But we always eat the game that my boys bring home. Which is not very often because they had rather fish than hunt. And we all love to eat fish. But we also practice the catch and release as well. But if we are wanting a mess of fish to eat, then we keep them. Probably the reason you feel that shooting a deer is more wrong than catching a fish is the violence involved in hunting. And since you have witnessed war, I can see where it would bother you to hunt. I know there's no way that I could hunt. But I love to fish. So happy to read that you are spending time fishing with your little daughter. I know you two must enjoy that special time together.

In my opinion,i don't think there is something wrong with fishing or hunting for eating.I think what creates trouble is our mind,we wonder whether that's cruel or not,right or wrong is just out of pity.You know,once i had fed a duck just for fun,it has lovely light yellow feather and i love it very much.But one day i came back from school,i didn't see my duck and just found a dish of stewed duck on the table.Having seen that,i realized that what on the table was my duck and cried.But after all,after i calmed down,i ate it and immediately became immersed in its good taste.Maybe somebody will say that i'm conscienceless and very cruel,but what i want to say is that we all selfish,we can't live totally just want to make things around us happy.There are lots of people in the world are not vegetarians.If we do things just all put it in rules or just consider whether its right or wrong?how will others think of me?then we will do nothing!many things we do in our everyday lift is not as perfect as what we think or want,it's just because we don't put that on the table.If we just want to pick out evertything we do to find something wrong,then we must find that we have done nothing right. We had sinned a sin at the time our mother gave us the birth. But anyhow,i accept hunting for eating but don't agree with the act of just hunting for fun!!

It is natural to fish! Remember, in the bay, we cannot longer eat what we catch as it has been polluted for so many years now! The biggest problem that I see, is that the seas are being over-fished commercially, and between the pollution and extinction, we may not be able to enjoy fish either way! Maybe we will end up with totally new species, if anything can survive.

Fishing is fins, as long as you eat what you catch and provide food for the family. I am not an advocate of fishing for sport and causing pain to this creature if you do not intend to consume it.