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And there goes the neighbourhood.
 
because obviously spiking trees is a horrible thing ?
... is that because they risk lives, or what?
I'm not seeing the difference here
 
Here's a thought, if you don't like the thread don't read it.

If I had a dollar for every time you complained about a thread I'd be a very wealthy woman.

But how else can he get his worthless post count up? I'm not going to respond to his latest dig. Pretty silly stuff though.
 
because obviously spiking trees is a horrible thing ?
... is that because they risk lives, or what?
I'm not seeing the difference here

Spiking trees does not damage to the tree itself. What it is intended to do is to cause injury to the faller when they are harvesting the trees. Part of the falling process is the speed of the cut. If the saw chain is damaged while they are falling a tree it can split or roll on the stump as it comes down, possible injuring or killing the loggers. The same thing when one of the spiked trees comes into the mill. If the saw blades they use hit a spike it can shatter the blade causing potential injury to the mill workers. The intent was to cause injury to the guys working with these spiked trees, so they would not attempt to harvest them. Most of the logging crews used metal detector to check for spikes if they had reason to believe that they had been spiked. The same thing at the mills. Unfortunetly quite a number of guys were injured because of thier actions.

What he is doing now is very similar. He doesn't care if he injures any of the crew of the vessels that are harvesting these whales. Probably hopes he does. The thing is the crew that he is harrasing doesn't make policy. They are just out there trying to make a living like everyone else.
 
There must be limitations on the exploitation and degradation of the most important mass of matter on this earth, the ocean.
I have trouble comprehending why what he is doing is effecting you so much.
By international law, the take of whales is prohibited. Japan is breaking a world wide law knowing that it is near impossible to uphold this law due to location and lack of manpower. Watson is the only "cop" in the antarctic that I know of and though radical, has made a difference in ocean awareness, which is a boon to ecologists and ocean lovers throughout the world.
If you want to worry about something, worry about the mass of plastic debris the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Or maybe the billions of gallons of oil purged by BP which will create irreversible damage to the Atlantic and its outlying coastlines!
Good Diving!
 
By international law, the take of whales is prohibited.

Please quote for me the law that prohibits whales being harvested. I don't believe it is illegal and I keep asking for evidence to the contrary (as I might be wrong) but no one has provided it.

Watson is the only "cop" in the antarctic that I know of and though radical, has made a difference in ocean awareness, which is a boon to ecologists and ocean lovers throughout the world.

I am of the opinion that he makes countries like Japan want to whale more. If they give in to him they will lose a lot of face. So, I believe he does more harm than good.

If you want to worry about something, worry about the mass of plastic debris the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Or maybe the billions of gallons of oil purged by BP which will create irreversible damage to the Atlantic and its outlying coastlines!

Yes, I am worried about those things. Much more so than I am about non endangered whales being hunted legally in the Antarctic.
 
By international law, the take of whales is prohibited. Japan is breaking a world wide law knowing that it is near impossible to uphold this law due to location and lack of manpower. Watson is the only "cop" in the antarctic that I know of

What Japan is doing is not illegal, immoral yes but not illegal. They are using the fact that they are legally allowed to take whales under the guise of research.

Watson is not a "cop", he is an off the wall vigilante, he is not enforcing any law, just his personal belief. He's a "true believer", like the guys that bomb abortion clinics.
 
What Japan is doing is not illegal, immoral yes but not illegal. They are using the fact that they are legally allowed to take whales under the guise of research.

Watson is not a "cop", he is an off the wall vigilante, he is not enforcing any law, just his personal belief. He's a "true believer", like the guys that bomb abortion clinics.

So the Japanese are using a "guise" but still being legal? That doesn't make a bit of sense.

BTW abortions are legal and abortion clinics would be the same as jap whalers IF they were performing abortions under the guise of research. That's not happening so lousy analogy.
 
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So the Japanese are using a "guise" but still being legal? That doesn't make a bit of sense.

Making sense is not a requirement for international treaties

Japanese whaling is currently conducted by the Institute of Cetacean Research. The meat from scientific whale hunts is then sold in shops and restaurants.[1] This is allowed under IWC rules, although most IWC members oppose it.[2]
 
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