I mean, he kills it in the end, which was his original goal anyway. Made me furious though. I was hoping it would get away in the end and he was left mentally and physically scarred for life.
Humans shouldn’t eat highly intelligent wildlife that is smarter than most human children to begin with, but it’s not like humans are even paragons of humanity to other humans.
The octopus was trying to kill him too. He attempted to dispatch it cleanly with the speargun but missed and then the octopus physically retaliated against him. Was he supposed to just die? You have to fight back when something is attacking you.
You could argue he was in the wrong for hunting it in the first place, not for fighting back when he was at risk of being choked to death.
People who touch highly intelligent wildlife and harm at risk fragile ecosystems have no business engaging with nature that feeds whole coastlines and provides work for thousands of people, not just one embarrassingly bumbling fisherman.
Spearfishing is one of the most recommended fishing methods from an ecological standpoint. He isn’t harming the ecosystem in any way by spearfishing an individual octopus. But I agree that fishers should be passing over cephalopods due to their intelligence.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were way more intelligent than that. There are tons of octopi who recognize and use human tools to escape human environments like aquariums.
I don’t even follow the Bible, but way to generalize a whole group of people based off the actions of someone else. That’s a sure fire way to spread hate
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u/BeyondTheBees 27d ago
Why you gotta squeeze it like that 😡