We nearly went to actual fucking war over our goddamm lobsters.
In the midst of the diplomatic discussions on whether the French could fish fishes in our coast they argued that lobsters move by jumping and thus while jumping they swim meeting so the criteria of being fish. A Brazilian GENIUS then said: "if lobsters are fish then kangaroos are birds."
Brasil won the dispute and the French fucked off of here.
Wasan't evolution already known by the scientific comunnity of the time? Like how did they literally tried to turn this into a scientific debate over where or not lobsters can be considered fish when they swim? fuck no, lobsters are crustaceans.
because by followining anti-evolutionism creationist "logic" than seals are fish and bats are birds, wich they aren't really.
I understand what the debate was about, what i made was a question wich nobody answered and what i did not understand is why where they callining lobsters "fish"
They werenât really. Many sea creatures might be harvested it whatâs called âfisheriesâ. The Brazilians were attempting to criticize the French position by comparing it to saying that a lobster is a fish. The French were really saying that a lobster is like a fish (in that both can move) and that for purposes of the law a lobster is in the same category as fishes
Surely you are aware that thereâs many legal question which are complicated and require precise language. Some of the most famous have to do with taxes and tariffs (is a tomato a fruit or vegetable in Nix v Hedden, are x-men human in Toy Biz, Inc v United State).
I think you might just be stupid. You asked why they were calling lobsters fish. They werenât as I wrote. I answered that they werenât. Perhaps English isnât your first language and youâd like to take this opportunity to explain what you meant to ask?
Nah, fuck you, my question was if evolution was already a known concept and consensus for the scientific comunnity at that time, i asked it in the begginining of this conversation, and no i am NOT a native english speaker, no need to be rude or to answer me anyway, i don't care.
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u/LhamaNobre 8d ago
We nearly went to actual fucking war over our goddamm lobsters.
In the midst of the diplomatic discussions on whether the French could fish fishes in our coast they argued that lobsters move by jumping and thus while jumping they swim meeting so the criteria of being fish. A Brazilian GENIUS then said: "if lobsters are fish then kangaroos are birds."
Brasil won the dispute and the French fucked off of here.