GNED-135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fly Fishing, Hasty Generalization, Argument From Analogy
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In of pain, predators and pleasure (which appeared in essay essentials by sarah norton) Walter isaacs considers the issue of whether fish feel pain when hooked by angler, and supports the idea that fish in spite of some scientific researches, experience extreme stress after being caught by human. Moreover, isaacs supports his claim by using a combination of personal experience and evidence obtained from scientific studies. Author, regardless of his understanding of mortal distress of the fish, attempts to find an acquittal for his enjoyable actions. The author concludes that there is no way to avoid harming the creatures, but recognizing and respecting the harm that everybody cause by catching the fish give anglers the credit of good intentions in this matter. Although isaacs sounds very persuasive when he skillfully appeals to emotional part of the issue and shows his sympathy for causing the fish distress and pain as results of the fly fishing acts.
