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The law is not always morally correct why should people be allowed to use the bodies and secretions of animals when they don’t need to.
I don’t care at all for people who murder whales just because the law is on their side.
Neither do I.
But I also don’t care for people who turn to violence to get their way when the empirical evidence already shows that other legal and semi-legal actions are more effective at achieving the intended goal.
Save the violence for when it will make a difference.
You’re not mentioning the violence the whales are facing.
No, I’m not. That’s beside the point.
The goal is to stop violence to marine mammals, especially whales.
We have over fifty years of evidence showing that being violent to whalers doesn’t accomplish this goal, while blockades, media coverage and international pressure, along with helping people identify with whales and encouraging boycotts of whale-derived products does.
That’s the reason Greenpeace believes in peaceful protest, and it’s the reason why over the decades, the Sea Shepherd Society has also come around to that position.
What we SHOULD be doing is applying more pressure to Japan; they’ve reneged on the International agreement, and there should be international financial and political consequences for this.
It’s also worth noting that this arrest warrant was made before Japan broke the treaty.