Your Opinion on the Sea Shepherds

[Spock]

Sea shepherd has three vessels out for the antarctic anti-whaling operation this time. They are bigger, faster and better equipped than ever. Here is what is replacing the Ady Gil:

[Advent]

Originally Posted by The Illusive Man

Sea shepherd has three vessels out for the antarctic anti-whaling operation this time. They are bigger, faster and better equipped than ever. Here is what is replacing the Ady Gil:

Even protesting groups have awesome ships these days...

[Spock]

Originally Posted by Advent

Even protesting groups have awesome ships these days...

True that; and it's almost as big as the Shonan Maru (the ship that sank its predecessor) so the ramming will be a lot fairer this year.

[Human No More]

So you acknowledge they intend to ram people?
That's a trimaran. It will not come off as well if it rams a conventional hull.

[Spock]

Originally Posted by Human No More

So you acknowledge they intend to ram people?
That's a trimaran. It will not come off as well if it rams a conventional hull.

I haven't adressed that specifically but we all know that ramming occurs when they try and stop the whaling vessels from brutally slaughtering the whales.

I don't think they intent to ram with the trimaran though, they will leave that to the two monohulls.

[Human No More]

The two they've so far failed to do anything with?
Look at all the historical results of ramming, more often than not, it destroys both. Also, a deliberate act of ramming is piracy.

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Human No More

The two they've so far failed to do anything with?
Look at all the historical results of ramming, more often than not, it destroys both. Also, a deliberate act of ramming is piracy.

We established the illegality of their operation long ago. They just don't care.

[redpaintednavi]

The best would ofcourse be if the international community could get their tumbs out of their rear parts and amass a protective fleet that protected the Antarctic whales. Then the Sea Shepherd did not need to butt heads with Japanese whalers. But since the international community still does nothing organistations like Sea Shepherd just have to go on protecting the whales from being slaughtered.

[Spock]

Originally Posted by Human No More

The two they've so far failed to do anything with?
Look at all the historical results of ramming, more often than not, it destroys both. Also, a deliberate act of ramming is piracy.

They've prevented the slaughter of a sizeable number of whales. They need to keep this up.

[Sight Unseen]

^ This.

It doesn't matter how it happens, something needs to be in place to stop the whalers' activities. Whether it be a piece of paper in a law book or direct action, I don't care.

[Fosus]

Fosus agrees.

[rapunzel77]

Originally Posted by Sight Unseen

^ This.

It doesn't matter how it happens, something needs to be in place to stop the whalers' activities. Whether it be a piece of paper in a law book or direct action, I don't care.

It does matter. Granted, I am against whaling. We have other ways to get oil now without resorting to whales. However, these "sea shepherds" are using terrorist tactics. They are endangering lives and destroying livelihoods and that isn't right. Something else should be done to stop whaling without resorting to destroying property and endangering innocent fishermen's lives who are only trying to make a living.

[Advent]

It may be against some laws, it may seem stupid or irrational, but if it helps the environment, I couldn't care less about the consequences.

[Spock]

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

It does matter. Granted, I am against whaling. We have other ways to get oil now without resorting to whales. However, these "sea shepherds" are using terrorist tactics. They are endangering lives and destroying livelihoods and that isn't right. Something else should be done to stop whaling without resorting to destroying property and endangering innocent fishermen's lives who are only trying to make a living.

This attitude is humanities biggest problem, if we continue with appeasement then this world is officially going down.

Think of how Neville Chamberlain handled Hitler in the 1930s.

[X.,.Pandora.,.X]

Its extremely dangerous what they do, and I dont agree with it all, but it makes for good tv, shows how screwed up that is...