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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
Considering the that fishing is a lottery of sorts--you don't know what's at the other end of the line until much later--I can't fault the old man for trying to catch the fish initially. A fish one third smaller would have given a similar fight and still been small enough to get into the boat.
As for the rightness or wrongness of the acts of fishing... that reaches over into an entirely different topic.
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I don't expect everyone to agree with me about killing and eating animals. But I object to the romanticization of it. I object to the framing of it as an epic struggle between man and nature--some struggle, when it's the predatory man who has the hook and the harpoon, and all the prey can ever win is its escape. I object to the notion that a man somehow gains heroic stature by killing another creature that's bigger than he is.