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# Appreciated
But we kill livestock to eat. Thats survival. Theres a big difference between that and killing a goldfish in the name of art.

And watch the video. You can clearly see that the goldfish is distressed, as soon as the water level begins to drop its movements are jerky and panicky. It doesn't exactly look overjoyed, does it?

I just dont see who would be so very depraved as to kill something and call it art.
(, Fri 11 Aug 2006, 2:03, archived)
# well,
that's a bit of an anthropomorphism.
Flapping about is just the fish's instinctive response to not being in water. I suppose it's evolutionary cause is to move it from dry land into any nearby water.

But it doesn't mean the fish is in pain or emotional distress.

Whether or not it is a ad thing to kill and torture a goldfish, that is a matter of opinion. You obviously think it is and I, well, I do too really but I really can't support that with any scientifically reasonable arguments.
(, Fri 11 Aug 2006, 2:15, archived)
# Pfffft.
Who needs science when you've got a conscience?
(, Fri 11 Aug 2006, 2:19, archived)
# pfft, if it weren't for science,
goldfish wouldn't have existed in the first place!*

*may not be exactly, or at all, true
(, Fri 11 Aug 2006, 2:25, archived)