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Illegal fishing should be treated as an act of war against the human race. Illegal fishing boats should just be sunk.
by jgeada 6y ago
Illegal fishing should be treated as an act of war against the human race. Illegal fishing boats should just be sunk.
- 082349872349872 6y agoThe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars were mostly net cutting and shouldering.
- dTal 6y agoThe verve with which you enforce lethal consequences on people who break the rules to survive, must be equally matched with a verve for helping those in need. Many of these people aren't illegally fishing for pleasure.
- brutt 6y agoWhy you have locked doors in your house? Maybe it better to help those who are looking for shelter or food instead of spending money on doors, locks, security cams, police, courts, jails, borders, army.
- Jabbles 6y agoThe parent said "equally matched", not "instead of".
- rfrey 6y agoYou equate locking my door at night with killing subsistence fishermen who are breaking fishing laws to survive?
- brutt 6y agoYep. If these same fishermen will break into your country and then break into your house, it will be a bit late to enforce law. Dozens of wars we know started this way.
- Chris2048 6y ago> must be equally matched with Why? This is what leads to world-policing and "white mans burden".
- mellavora 6y agoSo I might accept your basic premise, but not your suggested remedy. As other have pointed out, the fishermen may not have a lot of other options. better would be to deport/repatriate the crew then sink the boat to make an artificial reef. This hurts the boat owners. though, they might then decide to take "revenge" on the crew for costing them a ship... also, in the case the fishing is done by a nation/state, they might consider this an act of war. so it is a tragic problem. and just wait until deep sea mining takes off https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-feet-under-the-sea/603040/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-f...