[Chainmail]

So you say. Some populations are doing well. Others are still threatened. All the same, shouldn’t we move to protect very intelligent creatures from the law-breakers?

[driftdiver]

So the international community that you worship says.

I do agree we should protect the intelligent creatures from the law breakers, which is why the Sea Shepard pirates should be blown out of the water.

[7MMmag]

The Minke whales the Japs harvest are not rare. That said, one wonders just how many are needed for scientific study. Two or three? A few dozen maybe?

Meanwhile, the the self-appointed "sea shepherds" are in fact guilty of high seas piracy. They have no charter, no commission, no actual authority to try to enforce anything.

They have no real "law" to enforce in the first place.

The sea shepherds (lower case deliberate) are extra-judicial eco-moralists, whom have always been destructive, violent extremists. Eco-terrorists, if you will.

It is a credit to much of the rest of humanity, that no one has blown Paul Watson's head off. Yet.