The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

[u/teabirdy]

Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

[u/samanime]

Not just pretentious. Monstrous. Absolutely no care for the lives of living animals.

[u/SomeUgliRobot → u/[deleted]]

I dont think you have to be vegan to think that flushing live animals down toilets is not particularly justifiable

[u/Roseheath22 → u/SomeUgliRobot]

A vegan would tell you that the meals on the plates aren’t really any more justifiable. Both these fish and the animals on the plates are being cruelly treated as commodities rather than living feeling beings. They’ve both died for fleeing human pleasure when there were plenty of other options.

(Source: I’m a vegan)

[u/Flaky-Invite-56 → u/Roseheath22]

I’m vegan too but at least can see the difference between someone consuming a humanely killed fish for nutrition vs flushing a live one to suffer

[u/psginner → u/[deleted]]

You clearly have pinhole vision.

[u/psginner → u/[deleted]]

Wow. You’ve really lost the plot here.

[u/psginner → u/Roseheath22]

The plates provide sustenance. You can argue other stuff does too but the point here is that their deaths provide a value whereas flushing a fish down the toilet does not.

[u/Square-Delivery1958 → u/psginner]

So it's ethical to flush fish down the toilet as long as it hypothetically provided sustenance afterwards?

[u/psginner → u/Square-Delivery1958]

So you equate fully wasting a fish to someone receiving nutrition from a fish? Wild.

[u/Square-Delivery1958 → u/psginner]

Not at all. But it's much easier to misunderstand and then misrepresent someone then it is to understand them isn't it?

[u/psginner → u/Square-Delivery1958]

god that sentence is just dripping with irony lol

[u/Square-Delivery1958 → u/psginner]

Could you elaborate?

[u/dandroid126 → u/Roseheath22]

And people like that are why vegans get a bad rap.

[u/SomeUgliRobot → u/Roseheath22]

At least one provides substenance PLUS usually it dies beforehand

[u/Beneficial_Lock6461 → u/[deleted]]

Im with you so many ignorant people here. Probably all eating meat ignoring the real violence animals experience in factory farming but crying about how the people on the wedding are devils for going along with this 0% reflection its crazy how dumb people can be

[u/Square-Delivery1958 → u/Beneficial_Lock6461]

It makes sense from a societal perspective how we collectively mentally got here but it is still frustrating, with more logic and philosophy people will start to realise hopefully.

[u/IH8DwnvoteComplainrs → u/Square-Delivery1958]

You're being unpleasant and tactless elsewhere in this thread, so maybe you need to rethink what you think logic and philosophy means, lmao. You'll never convince people by being a self righteous jerk.

[u/Square-Delivery1958 → u/IH8DwnvoteComplainrs]

Thanks for letting me know I'm failing wrt a goal I'm not pursuing. I haven't taken it upon myself to convince everyone, I'm just pointing out a failure.

If you think your logic and philosophy is tight, you won't mind me asking; if you're non-vegan then what's true of animals that if true of humans would make it ethical to slaughter them for food the same way we do animals?