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Anonymous
Hey /an/, do worms feel pain?

I mean, when we go fishing, we take a GIANT metal bar and STICK IT THROUGH THEIR BODY! Then we throw the still living carcass into the water where the worm nearly drown! And to top it off, the worm gets nibbled on by a GIGANTIC fish!

I'm never going fishing again.
>> Anonymous
that's the part next to catching a fish that I love the most about fishing
>> Anonymous
Who cares.
>> Anonymous
Plants feel pain OP, guess you'll have to stop eating too.
>> Anonymous
>>239119
Dirt feels pain too.
>> Anonymous
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mm gimme dem wormz
>> Anonymous
>>239094
you're more disturbed at a worm feeling pain from the fishing hook when the fish get the hook stuck in their mouth?
>> Anonymous
>>239130

Water, air and rocks, too
>> Anonymous
>>239119
We don't know that. :B
>> Anonymous
Also, when I was young Dad told me fish don't have nerves around and inside of their mouth.
He was wrong =(
>> Anonymous
>>239156
Fish:
>Owie, there's a hole in my mouth. Oh well, it should heal soon, I just hope the blood doesn't attract sharks.

Worm:
>OH MY GOD HELP ME I CANT FEEL ANY OF MY ORGANS AAAH I CANT MOVE SOMEONE HELKP ME OH GOD OH GOD FUCK
>> Anonymous
>>239094

You can fish with dead bait, you know.
Whenever I went fishing as a kid, we always used dead worms or lures or... some sort of small fish, I think it was called 'whitebait' or something. Anyway we were always successful enough - assuming of course that it was a good fishing spot.

Never really understood live bait. I can't really imagine how much more a live worm would wiggle than a dead one anyway, after it's been pierced with a hook and thrown into cold water. I think it'd be pretty much dead after that whole thing.
>> Anonymous
>>239156
>>239225
>>239293
Worms get split in half and keep on trucking all the time. It's called being a simple organism.

Fish have nothing more than a complex system of instincts. They don't learn from pain.

STOP CARING ABOUT INFERIOR ORGANISMS, THEY DON'T FEEL PAIN LIKE YOU DO.
>> Anonymous
How would /an/ feel if a giant plucked you from your home into near vacuum conditions, took a 10 foot pole with a sharp edge, then rammed it into your eye where it goes THROUGH your torso and comes out of your pooper? Not only that, but you have like 8 hearts so you have to suffer for a while.
>> Anonymous
>>239360
You are the kind of person that should be fed to animals.
>> Anonymous
Everytime it rains and the worms come up, I take the time to get a twig and flip any stranded worms on the sidewalk, back into the grass, so they won't be stepped on. :D
>> Anonymous
>>239225
Yeah your dad needs to have a hook through his member and asked how long it took until it went numb.
>> Anonymous
>>239360
ITT: people who dont know shit about biology or the nervous systems of chordates in comparison to fucking Annelida
>> Anonymous
Fishing is basically animal abuse, but who the shit cares. It's just sucky animals with the intelligence of a nigger.
>> Anonymous
No, worms don't feel pain. Fishes do, though.
>> Anonymous
>>239375
They do not experience it in the same way we do. They experience it merely as a way to avoid that negative stimuli, and don't have the same associations we have with it.
>> Anonymous
>>239313
No, an earthworm that gets cut in two is going to die. They are too complex to survive.
Planaria, yes.
Earthworms have a nervous system and the necessary neural transmitters.
They do feel pain.
So do fish.
>> Anonymous
>>239376
You and a cabbage share around 50% of your genes.
An earthworm is so close to us, it's ridiculous.
>> Anonymous
>>239379
So are you saying that a cabbage has an intricate nervous system that rivals our own? Or possibly that a cabbage is capable of the level of thought process that goes through a human mind? What exactly are you trying to say here?
>> Anonymous
>>239378
if you cut it near the end it one end (the head) might survive tho.
>> Anonymous
>>239363

I hope you're not joking, because I'm so happy to find someone else who does that too :D
>> GENTLEMAN
Meat has allowed humans to grow big brains. Eat MORE MEAT!
>> Anonymous
Whether fish actually feel what we would consider pain is still up in the air. They lack the part of the brain that processes pain in vertebrates so either their brain is wired completely different or they don't feel pain. Of course they do physically respond to stimulus that would cause pain in most animals, but AN AUTONOMIC REACTION TO STIMULUS =/= PAIN. Most people don't seem to grasp that point.
>> Anonymous
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Broccoli has an IQ of 10! 10 DAMMIT!
>> Anonymous
ITT: Why PETA-fags should be rounded up and shoveled into ovens.
>> Anonymous
>>240329
Exactly my point.
>> Anonymous
>>240329
And in humans it is not an autonomous reaction?
You cut your finger, your spine and brain react with a reflex and tell you "ouch".
Where's the difference to a fish's reaction?
Just the ability to reflect on the pain in a conscious state?
Well, I say, pain hurts, wether you can or cannot reflect on it.
>> Anonymous
>>240343
Seriously, if you haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about, just shut the fuck up.
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Most of the time when a fish feels pain, such in the tail, side, or gills from a hook, they give up, and let themselves get tugged in...>.> sure they fight back on release *northern pike*... when you hook them through the lip, what do they do, they fight... plus their lips are extremely thin... suggesting that there might not be anyting but bone in their lips. Anyways, just an opinion from experience in fishing. OP, worms are worms... when you cut one up, it regenerates anew. No worries. Besides, would you rather the worm live and you starve, or you eat and one worm die? That is, if the situation called for it? Kill the worm.
>> Anonymous
>>240347
or how about you shove it up your ass?
>> Anonymous
>>240595
I expected better, even from someone so stupid that he thinks the brain's role in pain is 'the ability to reflect on it'.
>> Anonymous
>>240426
When you cut a worm in two, typically only the larger half survives.
>> Anonymous
>>239360
You are female. And most possibly underage. You shouldn't be here.
>> Anonymous
Fish do feel pain, scientists say:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2983045.stm
(although one actually point out that fish can't really experience pain the way we do, because of their rather simplistic brains.)
>> gizmogal !MmLOyiCYJs
um, the FISH GET A HOOK IN THEIR THROAT.
isn't that more of a cause for concern?