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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by NeonTiger1992 on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:02AM (#20324810)
"My heart is overflowing with happiness, and I'm deeply moved," said Yoshifumi Kai, head of the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association. "People have hunted whales for more than 400 years in my hometown."- Just because something has long-standing traditions, doesn't mean that should be continued.

We used to burn people for witchcraft and did so for a long time.

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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by booleandilemma on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:10PM (#20326780)
What if we allow people to hunt whales, but they have to do it using 17th century technology, so that it’s not easy to overhunt?
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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by dTal on Monday July 01, 2019 @01:02PM (#20327368)
This is the perfect rejoinder to "but muh cultural heritage". If you want to break out the "400 year old tradition" argument, you shouldn't get to use modern industrial whaling technology.
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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by siffland on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:20AM (#20326200)
"the culture and way of life will be passed on to the next generation."

In certain states, fathers take their sons to KKK rally's to pass on their "culture and way of life", does not make it right.......

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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by fredgrott on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:10AM (#20326073)
no better idea let them be subjected to hearing the whale scream in agony during the killing on autorepeat
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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by arghwhat on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:01AM (#20325943)
> We used to burn people for witchcraft and did so for a long time.

Maybe it's just time that we resume that practice.

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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by ralphie02 on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:13AM (#20326118)
Don't get the downvote. I thought this was midly funny.
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Re:Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years by cygx on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:07PM (#20326756)
Non-substantive comments are frowned upon. So's commentary on voting, for that matter.

Cf https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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