"george" wrote in message
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It is an anatomical certainty that fish do not have the pain receptors
that
humans have, and so are not capable of feeling pain the way humans do.
I:m not
suggesting that you pull a healthy fish, who might, admittedly, feel
something
vagely resembling pain, if put to the test. My argument is that if a fish
is in
so dire a shape that it has to be "put down", then certainly that fish is
unlikely to feel much, if any pain at all, no matter how one decides to
end it's
life.


You keep making the comparison of fish to humans. Nobody but you is
suggesting fish are on par with humans from a nervous system standpoint.
That does not change the fact that they may and probably do feel pain. That
does not change the fact that anything we can do as fish owners to minimize
this suffering is a good idea.

Using your own faulted logic, and the story of your mother ailing from old
age. Would you use a slow method of euthanasia on a loved one, simply
because they are "in so dire shape...that it is unlikely to feel much"?

BV.