RE: I would like them to stop hunting whales but I'm conflicted about the "pressure" being put upon them. How many land mammals does USA slaughter every day? And I eat some of those dead mammals; and so I have a major internal conflict going on.
the California surfer who was saved from death by a shark,
RE: Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism,
This is one of the examples of why I think humans should disappear from the planet. We are destroying life in this planet.I fuckng hate the Japanese!!
Although they agreed to stop the hunt for Hump-backs, thanks largly to the Austrailians, they have now planned to kill just under a thousand others. 935 Minky's and 50 Fin Whales.
Thoughts?
I fuckng hate the Japanese!!
1) There's already a thread on this.
2) "I fucking hate the Japanese" is way out of line.
Guy-jin, it may be out of line, but then so is whaling. After so many years places like Japan have simply refused to acknowledge that times have changed. I do grant that many Japanese are also opposed to whaling, but the hunt goes on...
how about: "I hate the cultural value matrix that defines the japanese" The set of values that leads them to steal technology, violate all trade laws, violate international treaties regarding fishing quotas; bayonet pregnant chinese and korean women, rip the fetuses out by that same bayonet, toss the fetuses into boiling water; applaud the beheading of thousands of chinese, stack the severed heads in multi-layered rows and then publish those photos in japanese newspapers where the perpetrators were applauded as national heroes, without a single voice of opposition by the japanese public; the cannibalism of Allied soldiers and prisoners of war; the slaughter of dolphins, whales and porpoises?
Can that hatred be described as ignorant?
Sorry you FEEL that way ... given the FACTS, Swimming Lad is justified, and there is nothing inappropriate about it.
Or, how about I turn it around on you. What you just said equates to saying that all Americans are out there murdering innocent Iraqis, and therefore it's all right to hate them.
Use your head.
Entirly different situation. A ridiculous comparison. America did what it has done for the Iraqui's benefit. Iraqui's are not endangered and you are not eating them!
Read the post -- Values define our outlooks and actions ... each one of us incorporates a world-view and set of values, which then determine our actions ... to state otherwise is to engage in neo-sophistry and nihilism, and the sort of unreality that characterizes political correctness, not reality ... a criminal commits a crime because he is a criminal ... japanese supermarkets sell dolphin meat and japanese restaurants serve whale meat ... a whale beaches on a japanese beach, and the locals carve him up ... given the chance, as they were in WWII, they commit cannibalism ... japanese values, character
Every country does this. Do you hate everyone as a result?The set of values that leads them to steal technology,
All trade laws. All. Right. I'm not going to waste my time. Look it up yourself.violate all trade laws,
And somehow the rest of the world is incapable of stopping it.violate international treaties regarding fishing quotas;
Generalizations with shades of ignorance.bayonet pregnant chinese and korean women, rip the fetuses out by that same bayonet, toss the fetuses into boiling water; applaud the beheading of thousands of chinese, stack the severed heads in multi-layered rows and then publish those photos in japanese newspapers where the perpetrators were applauded as national heroes, without a single voice of opposition by the japanese public; the cannibalism of Allied soldiers and prisoners of war;
And again: Not all Japanese are in favor of that. Saying you hate them as a whole for it is, drum-roll please, ignorance.the slaughter of dolphins, whales and porpoises?
I hope what I just said demonstrates more intricately why that hatred is indeed seated in ignorance.Can that hatred be described as ignorant?
The comparison wasn't between whaling and Iraq, it was between World War II and Iraq, since Nick brought that up. Consider that the populace of Japan had been brainwashed to think that bringing the Emperor to the rest of Asia was fulfilling a destiny that would benefit all of East Asia. And now consider that the populace of America was told getting rid of Saddam was to bring Democracy to the Middle East, and therefore would lead to benefiting the entire Middle East by forcing Westernization on them. That make it a little less "ridiculous" to you?