Do Fish Feel Pain?
This one’s for my dad. We debated this while salt water fishing off Mexico this last weekend. If you think fish are the only ones that feel pain, let me tell you how my day on the charter boat fishing with my father was. First, in trying to put SPF 50 on my face, I sprayed sunblock in my eyes. Twenty minutes later, my right eye turned bloodshot and became irritated. While this was going on, my transitional lens in my glasses refused to do their job in the hot sun with reflecting Pacific Ocean, and my pupils got sunburned. REPEAT — My goddamn pupils got sunburned. Both eyes turned bloodshoot, itchy, refused to dialate, mucus starting running out my nose and every moment looking at anything felt like pain. This was in the first three hours of a 12-hour trip. My poor dad just wanted to spend some quiet time on the ocean with his son, wasting away the day catching our nation’s finest aquatic creatures. Instead, he got this every ten minutes:
ME: I think there’s something wrong with eyes.
DAD: Yeah, they’re red.
ME: Dad..
DAD: {fishing}
ME: Dad?
DAD: {sighs}
ME: Hey Dad?
DAD: Yes, son.
ME: My eyes hurt pretty bad.
DAD: I know.
ME: Hey Dad?
DAD: {considering getting another beer}
ME: Dad? Are my eyes red?
DAD: {rewriting the will in his head}
ME: {sniffs} Dad, what side is starboard?
Bill Simmons and Chuck Klostermann on MJ
Loved this. Click the 4th on down or so…it’s 6/29 part 1. Great discussion on MJ.
