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Originally Posted by aklim
Mine is based on PRINCIPLE. I find that if you put enough loopholes, there is no point having any rules. If we don't allow people to take the law into their own hands, no matter what it is over, we cannot allow it whether it is property or a dog or a cat, etc, etc. Would you be as sympathetic to a kill or abortion doctors? After all, they too are protecting sentient life. Kill enough and they won't dare to perform abortions and sentient life will be saved. So we lose a few lives but we save more. In any case, they too are doing what they can to save lives as they see it. How far do you wish to go on that slippery slope?
And that is your opinion. To the Japanese, they are food like beef, pork and chicken.
And a majority of people supported the 3rd Reich and slavery at one time too. Doesn't make either desirable, does it?
That is something you take to the authorities. Sorry if it didn't get enough traction for your liking. Just because a spouse complains about the other partner and the authorities cannot and/or will not do anything about it doesn't mean you get to take the law into your own hands.
As sanctioned by what globally recognized legal body? The state of TX executing a man is legal. My execution of that same man is murder.
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When they can raise whales like beef pork or chicken they are more than welcome to harvest them like beef pork or chicken. As of right now, whales are for lack of a better word, in the public domain and 'belong to all of us'.
I never sanctioned the murder/killing of any one. Sea Shepard and her crew are placing them selves in the path of the whalers as a form of protest. No one is firing any weapons and no one is being assaulted. They are protesting peacefully and with non-lethal weapons such as stink bombs. If any thing, they are guilty of defacing/destroying private property.
Sometimes the majority is right, sometimes they are wrong. What's your point? A majority of people at one point supported Jim Crow laws and a majority of people supported civil rights later in time. What does that prove?
From my understanding there is no sanctioned legal body that has any enforcement capability. Japan signed the treaty and they are using a loop hole to get around it. When they actually publish an scientific research on the whale data they have collected their claim may hold some water. As it stands now, there are no published studies and their claim is hot air to justify the killing of the wales for meat to make money.
Not sure about you, but if I suspect that another persons life is in jeopardy and the law does nothing, I will do what I feel is necessary an worry about the legal consequences later.