{"id":27,"date":"2008-12-01T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-12-25T00:59:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T16:59:27","slug":"fish-big-vs-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2008\/12\/fish-big-vs-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish : Big Vs Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2.gif?resize=64%2C64\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Humans are often full of self-contradictions. When they see beached whales, they try to keep them moist, to transport them to deep waters for liberating them back into the seas. It&#8217;s a humongous rescue mission, but they see the worth of it. However, probably most of the same humans don&#8217;t bat an eyelid on the fact that smaller fish is regularly netted, brought out of their natural habitats and killed for their meals.<\/p>\n<p>It is as if animals are worthy of compassion only when they are huge? I&#8217;ve heard of speciesism (&#8216;racism&#8217; by species), but this is &#8216;sizeism&#8217; (preferential treatment by size)? Though bigger animals might feel greater pain due to having more complex nervous systems, animals are equally sentient, be they great or small. Pain is still pain. Just as we wouldn&#8217;t even want the pain from a tiny pin&#8217;s prick, why should we inflict even the smallest amount of pain on any other beings? Further out of the question is whether they ought to be killed for us.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are often full of self-contradictions. When they see beached whales, they try to keep them moist, to transport them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[57,54,102,156],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-compassion","tag-pain","tag-speciesism","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}