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- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Attempt to sink a Norwegian whale boat
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.171400.4724@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Dec31.092242.27862@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:14:00 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- sigurd@kildin.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Sigurd Tjelmeland) writes:
-
- >Recently there was an attempt to sink the Norwegian
- >whale boat "Nybrenna" at quay. The organization
- >"Sea Shepherd" (Paul Watson) claimed responsibility.
-
- >What is the subscribers opinion of such actions?
-
- They are wrong, pure and simple, because they represent the initiatory use of
- force. I'm not saying that slaughtering whales is a necessarily desirable
- thing; perhaps I have as much right to the whales as does the slaughterer
- (but this is meaningless) and would rather they be kept alive, but I do *not*
- have the right to initiate the use of force against someone for disagreeing
- with me.
- Individuals performing such actions are terrorists, who, upon conviction,
- should be shot (afterall, do you want *your* money used to support them in
- jail?).
-
- -JTT
-