B wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> > B wrote:
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> >>Japan is explicitly stating this is a nationalistic thing.
> >
> > A "national interest" thing yes
>
> No, "nationalistic". You failed to show any national interest.

I think Japan's reactions to abitrary and irrational restrictions by
the IWC officially preventing Japan etc from resuming sustainable
harvesting can easily be rationalised as actions viewed from perceived
national interest.

> > So does would that mean that if the hunting was exclusively within the
> > Japanese EEZ, or even within the 12 nautical mile limits, and the boats
> > were hunting a very small and heavily regulated number of minke and
> > other balleen whales at rates well below the natural rate of
> > replacement, that such hunting would no longer be opposed by you on
> > these specific grounds?
>
> Try filming in Taiji next you drop in.

Been there done that. I have filmed in Taiji and when asking questions
and obtaining clarifications have shown some of the footage to people I
know in Taiji. Now could you try answering the questions above please?

I am personally opposed to Japanese hunting of great whales in the SH,
but have no objection to regulated sustainable harvesting inside
Japan's own EEZ. Is your objection territorial? based on Oz national
interest? Emotional?