On the one hand: whales are intelligent (as non-humans go) and have been massively over-hunted. Japan has no need to kill them for food; their claims that this is done for research is patently ridiculous. Japan should stop.
On the other hand: Sea Shepherd opposes Japan’s whaling fleet; but they are a bunch of irritating ineffectual self-important hippie dipwads. They like to pose as pirates (even adopting a cliche pirate symbol as their own) yet turn into whiners when they are seriously opposed, physically or legally.
Watching Sea Shepherd tangle with the Japanese whaling fleet is kinda like watching a rabid skunk taking on a gangbanger: you just want them to both roll into the sewer drain and never be seen again. Still, you’ve got to kinda chuckle when the whalers decide that Enough Is Enough and actually fight back against the hippies:
Dramatic collision in Southern Ocean leaves anti-whaling boat damaged
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The Sea Shepherd tub Bob Barker got itself good and tweaked by inserting itself between two *massively* bigger ships. Well… duh. Regardless of “right and wrong” and “legal and illegal,” if you ignore “physics,” you will likely get a very harsh lesson very fast.
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Sea Shepherd complaining about the whalers ramming their ship is kinda funny, given that their leader made a habit of ramming Japanese ships early on.
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