Is Fish Keeping Wrong?

I do love supposed statements of fact followed by 'not that I've ever been there'....genius mate genius! :good: I imagine I'm supposed to take your word for it now am i?....

If you can't see any similarity between a tank and a jail cell then that's simply your inability to understand the concept, not mine. For as many reasons you can argue that they are completely different there are just as many which would indicate there are many similarities...and unless you can give me an answer from your fish (which I'm guessing is fairly likely since you seem to be speaking on behalf of them by some of your comments) then I suggest you live with your opinion instead of trying to change mine as your wasting your time.

The only major different imo, is if you believe fish are intelligent. If you do then I would be inclined to think fish see a tank more as a jail cell than as a beach resort, obviously yours don't though I'm sure. If you think aren't intelligent then the original question doesn't really matter does it?
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so whats makes you think that i dont know what prisons are like, i may have not served time but i sure do know the system and how it works,for reasons that I dont wish to communicate with anyone, replying in a way to try and knock me down a peg or two isnt really needed, not that it will work. my response to yours was in a freindly way, its called conversation, obviously you cant hold a conversation without using your usual way of replying to people. It was not meant in the way you have taken it, so the problem is actually with you. so please refrain from talking to me like im some kind of idiot.
 
The only time I believe fish keeping is wrong is when you catch bass, bream or whatever from a large lake/pond where they have been free to swim and put them in a 200 or 300 gallon tank at home. To me that would be the equivilant of locking an innocent person up in jail (maybe that's a little extreme but the only comparison I could think of). True, they don't have to worry much about predators any more and they get fed but their world has been severely narrowed. If they are bred in captivity that's different.
 
Chill out...
:hyper: :lol: theres nothing wrong with me being honest to a member who on more occasions is on here to just put people in their place and takes things the wrong way, im enjoying the conversation of this topic , im not here to slattered by anyone, nor am i here to change anyones mind on what they think.
 
Not saying theres anything wrong with it, or what you said
:no:
Just can see the thread taking a nosedive soon if people don't chill....
Anyway, i've been locked up a few times although never for more than 5 days, i can reassure everyone that it was nothing like a fish tank.
Perhaps a restriction on freedom is the best way of looking at it, which it undoubtedly is, but whether the fish views it as such is probably, for us at least, an impossible question to answer....
 
Yes, I am evil and I keep fish, so fishkeeping is evil. I like watching them in their water box. There is no escape; they are my captives. :devil:

j/k
 
so whats makes you think that i dont know what prisons are like, i may have not served time but i sure do know the system and how it works,for reasons that I dont wish to communicate with anyone,


Firslty to make a comparison...you need to have two references. The first, a prison, the second is a tank....I don't care either way if you've spent time in prison. Although i will say that saying 'i know the system but don't want to talk about it' is akin to supposed statements of fact followed by 'not that I've ever been there' lol, it's no improvement.
Anyway, back to my main point...I never actually said you hadn't spent time in jail....but I did imply you couldn't of spent time in a tank (a point you conventiently ignored) yet you still purport yourself to be in a position to state my opinion as an untruth and yours as fact. Something I find laughable considering the lack of evidence you're able or willing to provide.

My response to yours was in a friendly way, its called conversation, obviously you cant hold a conversation without using your usual way of replying to people. It was not meant in the way you have taken it, so the problem is actually with you.

Apparently I now have a usual way do I?..I didn't realise we were so close as to know each others little habits. I personally have never noticed you.

I do have problems btw... but this conversation and you for that matter are not one of them.

so please refrain from talking to me like im some kind of idiot.

Not passing off your opinion as fact whist dismissing mine would go a long way to resolving that....oh and learning how to use quote tags also lol.
 
so whats makes you think that i dont know what prisons are like, i may have not served time but i sure do know the system and how it works,for reasons that I dont wish to communicate with anyone,


Firslty to make a comparison...you need to have two references. The first, a prison, the second is a tank....I don't care either way if you've spent time in prison. Although i will say that saying 'i know the system but don't want to talk about it' is akin to supposed statements of fact followed by 'not that I've ever been there' lol, it's no improvement.
Anyway, back to my main point...I never actually said you hadn't spent time in jail....but I did imply you couldn't of spent time in a tank (a point you conventiently ignored) yet you still purport yourself to be in a position to state my opinion as an untruth and yours as fact. Something I find laughable considering the lack of evidence you're able or willing to provide.

My response to yours was in a friendly way, its called conversation, obviously you cant hold a conversation without using your usual way of replying to people. It was not meant in the way you have taken it, so the problem is actually with you.

Apparently I now have a usual way do I?..I didn't realise we were so close as to know each others little habits. I personally have never noticed you.

I do have problems btw... but this conversation and you for that matter are not one of them.

so please refrain from talking to me like im some kind of idiot.

Not passing off your opinion as fact whist dismissing mine would go a long way to resolving that....oh and learning how to use quote tags also lol.
blah, blah, blah. :lol: :look:
 
Wow.

It dosen't seem like this is even about fishkeeping anymore, so I think I will step out, lol.

*backs away slowly*
 
i think of it this way its cruel if u have only 1 fish in a small thing, but if u have alot of friends for it in a big safe nice tank, its paradise techinacly
 
just playing devils advocate here.

Is anything mankind does that is not wrong?
 

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