Do people mind being harpooned? Asking for a friend.
Who would have thought?
Damn. Stabbing things hurts them? I’m just learning this now for the first time…
Something really funny about needing a report to work that out.
“Surprisingly, when you stab someone with a sharp and pointy stick, it hurts quite a bit. Fascinating.”
Nobody could have predicted this.
Right?
Dear scientists, I too dislike being skewered with sharp pointy things. I also dislike getting perforated by sharp stabby things or punctured by fast metal things.
So we’re clear.
It was also just a single company running a few extremely old ships. The guy who runs it must have had extreme pull to have lobbied for keeping whaling running for so long in the face of massive unpopularity.
Minke whale tastes absolutely fantastic though. Might miss it.
no fucking shit…
Thus begins the beginnings of “We’re whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon!” Sorry, wrong community
Maybe they noticed certain calico sea mammals have started fighting back
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They should have done that for a loooooooong time now.
I thought harpooning whales was an ancient relic of the past, not something we’re STILL fighting against in the 21st century. Oof.
Yea, its insane that its still going on.
How else do you propose we acquire delicious and non threatened minke whale meat?
Wow, imagine that, other mammals and animals can feel pain. Who’d have thunk?
It’s incredible people have trouble understanding this.
