Fishy About Fishing

Recently some of my friends are asking me to join them to go fishing. But I might have to say no to them because for me, as I politely explained, fishing is a sadistic inhuman barbarian kind of sport.
Oops, sorry, I just got a mental picture of me hung by a metal hook through my lips.
Well, the reason I said that is firstly we need to insert the hook into a living breathing caring feeling earthworm, who clearly tries to show us that it does not enjoy having a metal object inserted into its body by writhing and wiggling around frantically.
“The worm does not feel anything son. In fact, they are enjoying it. See how they dance happily? Just like Michael Jackson, right?” I bet that’s what the fishermen always tell their sons when they asked.

But of course nowadays people do not use earthworms anymore because, this shows how rugged and macho the fishermen are, earthworms are dirty and disgusting. They use lures and other types of bait. Well, it’s such a great news for the worms. But it does not change anything for the fish.
Imagine that if one day, you go to a McDonald and innocently eat your burger with your happy thought. Then suddenly you feel there’s a metal object in your mouth, and without any warning it goes through your lips and you are dragged towards the lake. Suck isn’t it? Well, that’s basically how the fishes experience, except that instead of McDonald, they eat worms, which kind of makes it more depressing.
“The fish does not feel anything son", the fishermen explain to their sons again.

I am not a animal right protester or anything, I just kind of afraid seeing the bonding of hooks and fishes. Probably it’s better to hunt fish like we hunt other animal, by using guns, so that the animal dies almost instantly (“The deer does not feel anything, son. See the blood? It’s nothing serious”, the hunter explains).
At least that’s what I always saw in movies. Jaws I, Jaws II, Jaws III, Orca, Deep Blue Sea, Lake Placid, etc., they did not use fishing hook to kill the sea monsters, they used guns, and grenades, and chainsaws, and so on. Well, that would have been fun.