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I didn't want to comment on this because it's hard to stay rational when such graphic images are shown.

If you look back at history, the Japanese have done worse stuff than that. They probably decapitated as many Chinese in the WW as the dolphins they have killed. They have captured Chinese and Korean women to used them as sex slaves for the army, called Chinese prisoners "wood" and used them as burtal medical experiment subjects. Stuff like put your hands in nitrogen and then pill the skins on your arms off. We thought we are past that, but this stuff still happens today, Sudan anyone?

On the flip side, many Japanese fishmans died fishing whales and what have you after the wrold, that was their only mean to feed the family. There is, perhaps a tradition that we do not see, and something in their culture that we do not understand. Still there is no excuse for what we saw in the video. Japn is one of the richest and most developed nations today, and their moral and ethic value should also follow.

I don't think we should stop fishing dolphin because they are cute. I think within reasons, as long as we hunt/fish a given resource in a human, sustainable, and enviromentally responsible way, then there's no problem with it.

In the case with dolphins, forget about sustainability, the way they do it is just way too cruel and unethical. In fact I have seen way worse than what's shown in the film. I have seen them hook a dolphin up by the jar and decaptiate the dolphin with a chainsaw. Man, the body and tail of the dolphin was struggling so bad as it the decapitated dolphin can still feel the pain.