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A Tail of Two Very Different Islands in the North Atlantic
A Tail of Two Very Different Islands in the North Atlantic
This week people came to the aid of pilot whales stranded in the Isle of Skye. They did all they could to alleviate their suffering and return them to the sea. Meanwhile only a few hundred miles to the North a pod, of 150 pilot whales were spotted by the Faroese Coast Guard and driven into the bay at Midvagur and viciously massacred.
How can such extremities of humanity exist in two cultures separated by only a small body of water?
Why do some Faroese have the lust to extinguish the life of such gentle, socially complex, self aware, intelligent sentient beings?
What demons drive them to unfeelingly waste the lives of living creatures they do not understand?
Why on the other hand did people on the Island of Skye feel motivated to save these very same creatures, to do all they could to ease their pain?
Oh the Faroese whalers throw their pathetic justifications out in defence.
They need the meat. They don’t.
The meat is healthy. It isn’t.
It’s a tradition. So is slavery and witch burning.
What I find most amusing is in their denial of the pain and death they inflict. They accuse us who defend life of being evil, of not being tolerant, of being insensitive. They even accuse us of being racist like they are somehow of a different race set above all others and exempted from compassion.
Yes, we are intolerant of cruelty. Yes, we are insensitive to the death they inflict in the name of some long lost culture of barbarism. To be accused of being in the wrong while championing life and compassion, empathy and reverence is the ultimate in denial by those whose justify the screams they solicit with each psychotic thrust of their vicious knives.
The slaughter of the pilot whales and dolphins in the Faroes, like the massacre in the Cove in Taiji, Japan is an embarrassment to all of humanity. They say it is none of our business, BUT it is very much our business.
It is our business because we cherish life. It is our business because we abhor the sickening massacre of such gentle and intelligent beings. It is the business of any human being that retains an ounce of empathy and a modicum of compassion.
By Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson
A Tail of Two Very Different Islands in the North Atlantic
A Tail of Two Very Different Islands in the North Atlantic
This week people came to the aid of pilot whales stranded in the Isle of Skye. They did all they could to alleviate their suffering and return them to the sea. Meanwhile only a few hundred miles to the North a pod, of 150 pilot whales were spotted by the Faroese Coast Guard and driven into the bay at Midvagur and viciously massacred.
How can such extremities of humanity exist in two cultures separated by only a small body of water?
Why do some Faroese have the lust to extinguish the life of such gentle, socially complex, self aware, intelligent sentient beings?
What demons drive them to unfeelingly waste the lives of living creatures they do not understand?
Why on the other hand did people on the Island of Skye feel motivated to save these very same creatures, to do all they could to ease their pain?
Oh the Faroese whalers throw their pathetic justifications out in defence.
They need the meat. They don’t.
The meat is healthy. It isn’t.
It’s a tradition. So is slavery and witch burning.
What I find most amusing is in their denial of the pain and death they inflict. They accuse us who defend life of being evil, of not being tolerant, of being insensitive. They even accuse us of being racist like they are somehow of a different race set above all others and exempted from compassion.
Yes, we are intolerant of cruelty. Yes, we are insensitive to the death they inflict in the name of some long lost culture of barbarism. To be accused of being in the wrong while championing life and compassion, empathy and reverence is the ultimate in denial by those whose justify the screams they solicit with each psychotic thrust of their vicious knives.
The slaughter of the pilot whales and dolphins in the Faroes, like the massacre in the Cove in Taiji, Japan is an embarrassment to all of humanity. They say it is none of our business, BUT it is very much our business.
It is our business because we cherish life. It is our business because we abhor the sickening massacre of such gentle and intelligent beings. It is the business of any human being that retains an ounce of empathy and a modicum of compassion.
By Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson