• Hedin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As a Faroese national I have nothing positive to say about this man. I wouldn’t wish the amount of hatred and racism I’ve faced because that self-righteous cult leader in my worst enemy.

    I advocate against Japanese whaling, but I would never stand with this ignorant cunt. And if they locked the fucker up, I believe that there is a much higher chance of a meaningful resolution.

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        2 months ago

        Faroese have hunted whales since time basically immemorial as people with more land have hunted deer. They are also allowed to, under international law, to hunt whales just as say Inuit are. Their hunting is sustainable, always has been.

        The anti-whaling convention was instituted to stop commercial exploitation of the seas, to stop the great whaling ships, it was not instituted to stop people feeding themselves.

        So kindly fuck off and I have a song for you.

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        2 months ago

        I have never murdered whales. Nor have my children. We still being harassed.

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          2 months ago

          Why do you care more about one person than your culture of murdering whales? Why do you speak up about him but not your tradition that you apparently don’t participate in??

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            So the person who said this rhetoric breeds racism and xenophobia is now being demanded to renounce their culture and apologize for the actions of other people (just because they’re the same ethnicity)…

            Sounds like they were right.

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            2 months ago

            Well. I don’t see anything inherently wrong in killing whales for food if it is done sustainability and humane. I much prefer it to wasteful battery farming.

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                2 months ago

                Long-finned pilot whale, Atlantic white-sided dolphin. Neither are endangered, on the contrary: Both are listed as Least Concern.

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                2 months ago

                That’s not really a good take though. You don’t need to be intelligent or social to be worthy of the moral consideration to not be eaten. Otherwise we’d be eating babies.

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                  Yeah, that doesn’t logically follow. Nobody said it’s the one, singular consideration.

                  You’re comparing a species of animal (whale) to the age of an animal (baby). Two completely different things…

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                    2 months ago

                    Ironic, because you can’t tell the difference between a human and an animal.

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                2 months ago

                I haven’t tasted chimpanzee but I doubt it’s the same. I have tasted pig, which are also intelligent and social, and it tasted nothing like whale.

                When your moral arguments only apply when they fit your world view. They mean nothing.

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                  Maybe they also don’t eat pigs? I eat meat (FUCK chickens), but I haven’t eaten pork for years after getting to know my neighbors pet pigs. Sure, they’re more socialized and a whole different breed from factory farm pigs, but still they’re too smart for me to be comfortable eating them. But my point here is that you’re accusing them of hypocrisy or inconsistency, without ever establishing that they actually are being hypocritical or inconsistent.

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                    2 months ago

                    I take your point, and i also don’t eat pork. Not because I know a pig, but because of the terrible conditions most pigs are farmed under, and because all pork is imported here.

                    For me, loving an animal before you kill it is a part of lift. When I was a child, we often took rejected lambs into the house to bottle feed them. They become pets and then they became supper.

                    And I’d much rather that then only know meat as something you collect at the super market. Even though it would be more comfortable, the disconnect between meat and living creatures that modern people have often sickens me. So I’d much rather eat your neighbours pig than a factory framed one.

                    My point thought, is that no one gets outraged, justifys harassing people and wished death upon their entire family and country for eating pigs. So in reality, it’s not about intelligence and social behaviour. It’s about your culture being right and everyone else being wrong.

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      2 months ago

      what has he done to garner hatred against the faroe people other than condemn their whaling?

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      He has done more harm for his cause by insisting on being front and center in wale wars. The Japonese wale hunters were more appealing than him.