Yes, terrorists that resort to voilence should be put in prison like other criminals but to “shoot them on the spot”, like many people seem to endorse, is way out of line. By that logic we should also shoot those people on the spot, and then ourselves.

It’s also quite rediculous how some people seem to want to measure human life vs whale life. There is no fair measurement of life. If you’re gonna argue fairness in actions just look at results. It doesn’t matter what motive the terrorists have when they kill someone, it’s still a crime. Nor does it matter what your motive is to kill or harm them. The end result is still murder.

So simple minded folk become more upset about whales being killed than they do in the case of smaller animals/fish/whatever.

We hear this a lot, but please link to sources to confirm this. If it’s true anti-whaling dialog has some footing, otherwise the conversation just becomes anti-Japanese rhetoric.

this whole save the whales thing is dry, im not saying its correct or inccorect but were im from, when people die because an animal killed them, do you think that animals feels any remorse for taken away someones loved one NO. Do you think they huddle in groups and say “lets not kill humans because there loved ones will be upset”? NO

so why should you care if a couple 1000 whales die because people like to eat them and use them for research(regardless of whether there smart or not)

blue fin tuna was in a worse situation(correct me if i’m wrong) , did people really care NO, they put it on the news and said “were almost out of blue fin tuna”(not sure how there doing now), then everyone carried on about there business

fox hunting here in the uk was banned, people are still doing it , but no one says damn word, its a much easier cause to fight , but because everybody already started moaning at japan, the rest of you followed like sheep.

you need to stop and think about how easily you are manipulated by the media , then think about how the time and resources spent chasing after whalers could be used to help people who have barely anything to eat and no clean water to drink.