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I agree with this content, but the way you put it you might actually encourage people wanting to hurt then to do it already. You can try something similar to t

• krisoft 2y ago
  > the way you put it you might actually encourage people wanting to hurt then to do it already I don’t think people are waiting for my permission, but if they are: don’t hurt the orcas. > Electric shocks come to mind. … Another alternative could be something they perceive as foul taste/smell. Yeah those are options. I was also thinking about sudden noise, like a waterproof firecracker. The problem with all of these is that without testing it is at best a guess how effective they will be. Imagine you set the taser to the lowest setting and you trigger it and the whole pod of whales just die. Oops they are more sensitive to electric shocks we thought. Or you dump a bucket of capcaisin on them, and they just… don’t care? So you can imagine many level/dosage
• krisoft 2y ago
  > the way you put it you might actually encourage people wanting to hurt then to do it already I don’t think people are waiting for my permission, but if they are: don’t hurt the orcas. > Electric shocks come to mind. … Another alternative could be something they perceive as foul taste/smell. Yeah those are options. I was also thinking about sudden noise, like a waterproof firecracker. The problem with all of these is that without testing it is at best a guess how effective they will be. Imagine you set the taser to the lowest setting and you trigger it and the whole pod of whales just die. Oops they are more sensitive to electric shocks we thought. Or you dump a bucket of capcaisin on them, and they just… don’t care? Without carefull calibration and tests it is easy to fail in either direction, and either hurting the whales too much or not doing enough for them to notice.