They drain a third of its blood, and they could easily be drawing from an animal that has already been recently caught. They can be out of water for days. Comparing this to a minor inconvenience is a deeply inaccurate analogy.
This breaks the HN guideline against calling names in arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please don't do that in comments here, or edit it out when it slips in.
"Comparing this to a minor inconvenience is intellectually dishonest" <- rough paraphrasing of the comment
vs
"I read what you wrote, you are intellectually dishonest" <- a true attack against a person
The comment may not have been terribly civil (and that's a good reason for criticism) but I honestly don't see it as name calling.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
The guideline contains practical advice for how to edit the name-calling out of these things: simply shorten them. In this case, "Comparing X to Y is intellectually dishonest [or asinine]" can be shortened to "X is not Y".
[edit] - Appreciated.