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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring
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I don't think it's having your cake and eating it too, really. It's the same principle as someone being against abortion but also against killing abortion doctors, as someone else brought up.
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Personally I wouldn't want to live in a world where people like the Sea Shepherds would be banned from trying to bring justice to a worthy cause. When it comes to the 'health' of the oceans the situation is pretty critical. Many old timers who have sailed the worlds oceans when they were young and lately say that the oceans are dead. Dead as in compared to what they used to be. It's not a question of how many species will go extinct, it's more a question of will there be any kind of ocean ecosystem as it once was. And by once I mean as recently as ~50 years ago.
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I don't disagree that there needs to be steps taken to preserve the ecological balance of the oceans. However, a vigilante group ramming ships does nothing to that end. Instead, as I said earlier the are doing nothing more but casting a shadow over the real problem and breeding sympathies for their opponents.