Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass
  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1913·
    2 months ago

    Why do you care more about one person than your culture of murdering whales? Why do you speak up about him but not your tradition that you apparently don’t participate in??

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
      217·
      2 months ago

      So the person who said this rhetoric breeds racism and xenophobia is now being demanded to renounce their culture and apologize for the actions of other people (just because they’re the same ethnicity)…

      Sounds like they were right.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        131·
        2 months ago

        No amount of whaling is currently sustainable, and won’t be for many generations.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          2 months ago

          Long-finned pilot whale, Atlantic white-sided dolphin. Neither are endangered, on the contrary: Both are listed as Least Concern.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        32·
        2 months ago

        Gross. Whales are intelligent, social creatures. That’s like eating chimpanzee.

        • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          That’s not really a good take though. You don’t need to be intelligent or social to be worthy of the moral consideration to not be eaten. Otherwise we’d be eating babies.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, that doesn’t logically follow. Nobody said it’s the one, singular consideration.

            You’re comparing a species of animal (whale) to the age of an animal (baby). Two completely different things…