It never mattered to me whether they whaled or not, personally I have no problem with them going out and taking a few whales each year, there are plenty of the species they are hunting. What matters to me is a bunch of people dangerously interfering with a ship in international waters like they were doing and the tactics they employed. If you support what they do then where does it end? If you believe that global warming is killing your beloved whales will it be okay for them to do the same thing with supertankers someday? Even Greenpeace admits what they are doing isn’t cutting into the birth/death rate of any species hunted so this is nothing more than emotion driven at all levels here. Your love of whales finds it okay to do whatever is necessary to save them, cheering people on using their tactics is damn near supporting terrorism when you get down to it, and THAT is what I have always had a problem with Watson over.
“Your love of whales finds it okay to do whatever is necessary to save them, cheering people on using their tactics...”
Non-violent intervention isn’t doing “whatever is necessary.”
Otherwise they would have slapped some C-4 on the Japanese whaling boats, (like the French did to Greenpeace) a long time ago.
(See above post re: average etc.)