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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Just because someone is more bad then it does not excuse you.
What if I got a rocket ship and blasted myself to mars with a bunch of little girls and "loved" them all. There is no such thing as universal law, so I would have commited no crime. It does not make it right.
Regardless, the law bans commercial fishing. Right. They are fishing commercially. Simply saying you are doing it for research it what excuses them.
You say exploiting a loop hole, that really is a matter of opinion. Hunting whales for the purpose of selling them does not seem to fit in that loop hole for me, and many others.
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All I'm trying to do is try and put some perspective to what you say.
I'm not excusing the Japanese government for what their actions but your angle of attack is not helpful.
And I'm saying exploiting a loophole because that's what they're doing. It's not a euphimism of any sort.
The whaling moratorium put into place the rule that commercial whale is prohibited BUT whaling may be carried out for research purposes and the by-product is allowed to be sold off.
I agree that the Japanese are violating the spirit of such a law as their research is questionable.