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Is the West imposing its own moral code
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...on whaling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5085730.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5085730.stm
Japan's deputy commissioner to the IWC, Joji Morishita, says the organisation has become too concerned with conservation.
Speaking on BBC Five Live Breakfast he said many Japanese people felt the IWC was "arrogant" and that whales could be used on a sustainable basis.
This meant "science and probably international law" were on the side of the Japanese, he said.
"Many of the Japanese citizens thinks that westerners, (the) outside world, is imposing their own value code on Japan on an emotional basis, and naturally they think they're bullies or... arrogant."
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Not that the moralising of Western governments is much of a surprise nowadays.
Save the whales!
Yes, the West is hypocritical. But that doesn't mean we should say "oh well if Western nations are fishing certain species to fuck I don't see why we should try to prevent other nations to fish other species to fuck too".
The more species that are protected, the better.
I'd support a Japanese motion to ban cod fishing tomorrow if it were down to me.
In the meantime, if the whale fishing moratorium is lifted, there's hoping the fishing fleets will bump into a few of these
On one hand I think we should impose our values on the rest of the world and on the other I really don't give a flying fuck about whales.
That's the trouble with being right wing :chin:
The Chinese navy obviously don't give a fuck about whales, but they did fire on a Japanese Whaling vessle that entered their waters. Greenpeace and the IWC and that should pay the Chinese to sink whaling vessels. It'd make me laugh.
that's gotta be post of the week.
me too! thanks a fantastic solution!
they dont need to catch anymore, other than for appearing to support 'tradition' instead of retraining these fishermen
Few of these would stop the whaling...