A cause too far?
What is more important – a human or a whale life? It seems that there are some in the anti-whaling cause that side with our aquatic cousins. The Sea Sheppard may just be pushing things too far. Not only are they breaching international law of the sea by colliding with another vessel, they are putting peoples lives in danger. How many whale lives saved justify 1 dead human. Perhaps if we could answer this, we might get somewhere in this debate.
Tags: extremists, whaling
July 17th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Personally and i say this just for my thoughts and pleas feel free to disagree but pleas do not attack SS in any way its a forum to agree or disagree with a brief outline behind r thoughts mine are that SS has done a great job seriously after Skipper Paul was thrown out of gp the whales have been safer and what did he get kicout for protecting a seal please gp are a great organisation for the government liason but as fo non profit what well we know the truth there SS yes may have sank a few ships and amed a few others but there has been no fatality or felony arrest for any action taken to protect our oceans i say help SS use decisive action japan fuck off or sink pleasour thoughts are welcome and im very interested to see how many SS supporters and mockers we have here
July 17th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
The only people who have killed whalers are other whalers.
Plenty get depressed and commit suicide, something that never makes the news. Even their both killed himself last year. Then of course we have those who died in the fire last year.
Now if we look at it from a broader viewpoint we see that it is the Japanese whalers themselves who are firing guns at people, just lucky Paul had a vest. Then theres all the death threats from the Taiji dolphin killers.
I do not believe the whalers should be killed on purpose. I believe they should be arrested first and then their ship scuttled.
Fact remains that there is far too many people on the planet and most whale and dolphin species are at a tiny fraction of their historic populations.
On a personal level I think each Minke whale is worth a dozen or so human lives. Each Humpback 50 and each Blue Whale 1000. But then human life is cheap, oh so cheap. There was approx 1000 people in the ENTIRE Japanese whaling industry in 1986. There remains only a few hundred today. Priority is to find these people new jobs. I reccomend also expanding whale watching tourism to keep the whale connection alive with these whale communities.
Whales are protected species. A poacher shoots a rhino and he is shot dead by rangers. The same thing should happen with whales. Its really not that complicated. I don’t see why Norway, Iceland and the main culprit Japan have managed to evade punishment for so long. I mean if you look at the original IWC documents it lays out that illegal taking of whales is to be punished.