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Originally Posted by harmony12
How do you think ignorance can be changed into knowledge and understanding?
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If you are speaking about Japan specifically, I don't think that you will have a hard time educating people to know and understand but you will have a harder time having them voice and enact anti-slaughter anti-whaling sentiments ... UNTIL it becomes seen as accepted group thought.
In order to do that, you need group thought leaders to voice it.
At present the paid, governmental pro-whaling group thought leaders are working overtime to establish an anti-conservationist group thought based on false arguments and false logic.
The tendency you are fighting against is not stupidity or a lack of compassion but conformity.
If you look back at the Minamata Disaster, you will see the exact same dynamics. At first the company and government got away with it all because no one would speak out, next those that did speak out were turned against for bring shame onto the company, then a local leader got involved and suddenly everyone supported the issue and progress was made but ... THEN the government did what it does best, digging its heels in and dragging the whole thing out for as long as possible.
I propose the very same dynamics will happen here related to dolphins and whales. In this case, those dragging the heels are those whose self-interest is in being paid for life and pensioned on the back of bureaucracies that do not need to exist and which are generously financed by Japanese tax payers (of which I am one).
In such as case, my opinion is that Japan and the Japanese really do not have the personal and organization tools to challenge and change the situation and so change can only come form within and by "non-Japanese" methods.
Over to you Sea Shepherd, Greenpeace and all ...