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Originally Posted by minminRW
Ethically? What is the very ethical hunting? Please explain it.
I said that breeding animals for food may be more ugly than hunting because they deprive animal's freedom from the birth.
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Factory farming I agree is quite brutal also and I hope that it may become outlawed. However that is another issue entirely.
As for ethical hunting... hunting with the wellbeing of the eco-system in mind is ethical at the very least.
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Originally Posted by minminRW
Some kind of whales are increasing enough to be hunted.
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Certainly sustained hunting can take place. Commercial hunting is a different matter though.
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Originally Posted by minminRW
Japan have held by IWC ruling. Some people blame excessively.
I do not agree to IWC ruling. I want Japan to leave IWC as well as Canada.
International Whaling Commission have forgotten its identity.
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Canada has already left the IWC... but maintains a ban on commercial whaling.
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Originally Posted by minminRW
Decision by a majority is no more than a way of achievement for democracy.
Freedom of each country must be maintain unless violate the rights of other countries.
Some kind of whale is not under extinction fear, the right of whaling countries must be esteemed.
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First of all, countries do not have rights other than those set out by the UN charter.
Considering that Japan does not own the pacific ocean, and considering the ocean is a valuable resource for all countries in East Asia, the pacific and the Americas, then if Japan acts against this consensus by hunting whales Japan is violating the "rights" of other countries who utilise the ocean.
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Originally Posted by minminRW
IWC can control all amount of whaling by the IWC member.
There is no reason for banning in a single uniform way
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That's a huge assumption.
The very reason for banning in a single uniform way is because there are too many potential risks to the eco system. Also we can't trust the private sector and considering whaling activity is likely to increase if commercial whale hunting were allowed, the cost of monitoring Japanese whaling operations would also increase.
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From eyes Japanese, this seems opportunism by western people.
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Speak for yourself. It's only the perspective of Japanese conservatives and nationalists. In fact oppurtunism is what the small but powerful Japanese whaling lobby is doing by trying to envoke nationalist sentiments in the Japanese population with regard to this issue.
Let's keep this discussion rational.