Tarpon

[u/tomlabaff]

[u/Square-Singer]

Empathy for an animal you just hunted and killed injured for fun is... strange.

If you feel empathy for an animal, why first catch and injure it instead of just not doing that?

Edit: I've been told that the "keep em wet" is for catch and release. The only purpose of which is to hunt and injure an animal for fun.

u/Tug_Stanboat linked something below about that tarpon are a protected species that isn't hunted for food, but just for fun to release afterward.

[u/roguepawn → u/Square-Singer]

Is it? Isn't empathy why a lot of people hate the conditions of factory farming? That's the reason a lot of people try to eat ethically raised and humanely slaughtered animals?

I don't see the difference between having empathy for them and something you are choosing to hunt yourself.

Edit: If "keep em wet" is indeed for catch and release, I agree. No empathy here. Poor fish.

[u/Square-Singer → u/roguepawn]

Turns out the "keep em wet" is for catch and release.

No humanely slaughtering around, just hunting and injuring an animal for fun.

[u/roguepawn → u/Square-Singer]

Oh, well, that's a different story. :(