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Originally Posted by Charlatan
There is a big difference between hunting seals that are plentiful in their populations and hunting whales that are endangered.
The whale hunters, if given their way, will hunt them back to the brink of extinction (and likely beyond).
I see no reason, whatsoever to condone the mass hunting of whales.
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Agreed. Whale populations are not strong and they take a long time to reproduce. It is very easy to cause a species of large, slow breeding animal of low numbers to go extinct. we also have a hard time monitoring whale populations as they are always at sea. Seals, on the other hand, currently have a large, well monitored population and seals breed more quickly and readily than whales.
This is not an emotinal issue, for me, it is a scientific one founded in fact. Hunting whales is monumentally stupid.