Hardest catalyst to understand

[Kaaron]

I feel like we need to fully consider what hive mind implies.
Taking a few fish from a school, would be akin to removing parts of a tree.
They aren't individually conscious beings, choosing how they see the world.
If you kill one, the rest would continue their progress and evolution.
I feel like they would be harvested as a school and then incarnate in 3D as the essence of the totality of that schools experience.
Pets...are where individual consciousness would be learned.
Probably not a good idea to eat your pets.