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Originally Posted by Andrewl
Can you support this assertion with documentation? And if you are right then i fully support violating Japaneses sovereignty in this case. Sovereignty is not absolute.
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In international waters ships are under the jurisdiction of the state whose flag they fly. In the case of piracy, or slave trade, any nation has jurisdiction. Feel free to check against the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or the Admiralty law. Whaling is not mentioned in either.
Any violation of sovereignty in international waters is an act of war.
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Originally Posted by Andrewl
Then you don't really understand the issue; the mounting toll we are exacting on the ecosystem. Its not just one species, its dozens, hundreds. And eventually there is a tipping point when the ecosystem in places collapses. There is a point when we can no longer exploit everything on the earth at the rate we do. Its simple math, it just cannot work. I absolutely in no uncertain terms support resistance against this practice in any and all nations, regardless of borders, laws, or sovereignty. The consequences of not resisting this are suicide of the entire human species.
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I understand it just as well as you, I am simply drawing a different conclusion.
how do you know that not resisting whaling is suicide? Do you have a crystal ball? Can you see into the future?
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Originally Posted by Andrewl
They disagree with you. So do I.
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They do not disagree. They simply have decided to voice their resoning. They know they are perfectly within their right not to.