Urm, maybe I've been confusing. I'm arguing on your side. I'm fine with them being called terrorists because they are unlawfully attacking ships. I realize that they don't give a damn about the whalers' lives. I'm saying that the terrorists themselves are exaggerating their "sinkings".

Natural death in the wild is not much less grim and far more prolonged.
Slow starvation, attack by other whales and finally, drowning.
Give me an explosive harpoon, grinders or anything else that last less than 48 hours any day.

It's a tough world. Life and death are grim for most animals. Being an active part of that
grimness ourselves by hunting and killing does not make it any worse.