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> That another country is also evil doesn't make what Japan is doing any better. They both need to stop. While true, it looks bad for people who are on the fen
by pathseeker 7y ago
> That another country is also evil doesn't make what Japan is doing any better. They both need to stop.
While true, it looks bad for people who are on the fence and/or are ambivalent. If the people expressing the outrage aren't outraged about the whaling in the Faroe islands, it looks like they don't really care about stopping whaling but instead just want to protest for the sake of it (or they're racists against the Japanese, etc).
- sandworm101 7y agoIt is true that I am probably not angry enough about the Faroe whale slaughter, but they are much further away from me than Japan. I live on Canada's west coast, where Greenpeace began. There are far more flights between Vancouver and Tokyo than Vancouver and the Faroe Islands, and many more business and government connections. So it should be no surprise that I am more angry at Japan. I am also no fan of the Canadian arctic whale harvest. That it is classified as "aboriginal whaling", and is much smaller, makes no difference to me. Dead whales are dead whales regardless who is killing them.
- mtnGoat 7y agoI believe there are still occasional whale hunts in the strait of juan de fuca, by the Makah Trube from Neah Bay.