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Is the West imposing its own moral code

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in Politics & Debate
...on whaling

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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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Given how the West fishes everything else I cant see how we can be high and mighty about whaling.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I agree. We've depleted ordinary fish stocks ourselves - I don't see how whales are any different.

    Not that the moralising of Western governments is much of a surprise nowadays.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yes, probably.

    Save the whales!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The West is as hypocritical as anyone else in the world...enough said!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Er two wrongs don't make a right etc etc.

    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






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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have mixed views

    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:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    I have mixed views

    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:
    :lol:
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Yes, the Whaling is awful and should be stopped.

    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.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    I have mixed views

    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:

    :lol: that's gotta be post of the week.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Teh_Gerbil wrote:
    Yes, the Whaling is awful and should be stopped.

    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.

    me too! thanks a fantastic solution!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    the japanese demand for whale meat is getting that bad now, they're chucking meat away from whales they do catch, and they've resorted to using it in dog food and forcing it in school dinners

    they dont need to catch anymore, other than for appearing to support 'tradition' instead of retraining these fishermen
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
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    Few of these would stop the whaling...
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