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Originally Posted by Andrewl
Japan has honored the ban since it was introduced, they now believe there is enough whales to begin the slaughter anew. The whales are mostly killed in international waters, not in japanese waters. Issues of sovereignty are irrelevant.
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Sovereignty is very relevant. Japan has the sovereign right to whale whenever it chooses, and then stop whenever it chooses. The fact that this happens in international waters makes them even more in the right.
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What about the welfare of the whales and what their presence means to ocean life, and the health of the ocean, as a whole. Who defends that?
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Irrelevant. Plenty of animals that played vital roles in their environment have come and gone, and yet everything is still functioning.
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I disagree. And so does the Japanese government, who have been busy attempting to justify the hunt through various arguments.
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My point was that the Japanese government is under no obligation to explain anything.
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Its fucked up that you would care so much about the profit of a few Japanese, rather than the continued existence and health of the whale populations of our oceans. That seems very shallow to me.
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I could care less about them making a profit off of the hunt.