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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
I was just explaining my point. I thought you didn't understand it.
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I didn`t think that it was directed at me, as I have never supported whaling and never cited tradition as a reason to continue it.
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This organisation is a forum and it's consensus is not law. As far as I understand the only thing that holds these countries to their word is that they've all committed to the CURRENT rulings. Japan has used the current rulings to continue it's commercial whaling.
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But it would definitely be a start to push to make them rule against whaling altogether, in my opinion.
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I'm not sure about Norway and Iceland and their activities.
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Norway takes as many whales as Japan, in a completely commercial capacity. They`ve supposedly said that they would continue no matter what, have been pushing every year to take even more whales, etc. Iceland takes about half? If I recall correctly.
Japan gets all the publicity. Painting Japan as an enemy is a whole lot easier than doing the same to Norway, and various groups have stated this.
If people are against whaling, they should be against whaling - not against whaling if Japan is doing it.