Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The article "the sea Shepard" is about a man named (Paul Watson), an activist for the Wales, who takes a custom ship with a large I beam on the side so scrape ships hulls. Then he then rams into wailing ships in international waters. These wailers are acting against an act that states that nobody will hunt for Wales. Many wailing countries such as Japan and Norway have largely ignored this act, but Watson uses this as the basis to what he does.
In my opinion what Watson does is wrong. He attacks these vessels with innocent people on them; he does not care if any lives are lost. I do agree that someone should protect the whales because they are endangered and need help. But I think that the way that he goes about it is wrong.
The government should make it so that the act is more enforced, they should make more solid agreements with the wailing countries and use ships that are dedicated to holding up these laws peacefully, not by ramming ships and throwing gas over to the other ship or throwing things in the propeller so it will stop.
So I think both the wailers and Watson are in the wrong. There should also be a limit to how many whales can be killed each year.

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