It's not any different from beheaded chickens running around. Can't torture something if it's already dead.

I mostly agree with you simon. Though I think the finale is sort of neat..

"Can't torture something if it's already dead"

it's not dead though? it's dying. very slowly.

I don't think you're wrong for posting it either, mustard. I was interested by the first few things it chomped.

But here's an example for everyone as to why I find the guy's behavior tasteless. When I was like 14 there was a dead crow in the road that had been hit by a car; like, thoroughly dead, innards coming out, crushed skull, etc. Me and friend put a blackcat firework in beak and blew it up, then did another in its body someplace. Then we became disgusted by our actions. The crow was dead. It didn't care and didn't feel a thing. But we were behaving grotesquely in our excitement and fascination with fucking up and missing with this dead crow.

Similarly, this guy's innocent curiosity turns into a gross fascination where he's trying to find all the stuff he can do to this fish head. The kind of attitude this guy must have in that moment is what I'm taking offense at. Whether or not the fish/eel just has motor neurons reacting automatically due to random stimulation or whether it is actually alive to some degree is an issue that does bear on the morality of the guy's behavior, but I see it as a separate issue from what I'm talking about.

"everything other than its head chopped off"

So a decapitated head then.

If we were talking about something like a mammal, yes. It would die immediately if you cut off everything but the head.

But that's not what we're looking at, is it? We're looking at a living fish with its body cut off.

And if it had the same equipment to express pain as other animals, we would see that clearly.

https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/09/13/why-do-fish-move-after-d eath/