tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591067151103789843.post6195786472809065480..comments2023-12-21T11:15:11.821-08:00Comments on Strait of Magellan: Means vs EndsCaptain Robert Reederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500768952960978516noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591067151103789843.post-45532972872172144472011-02-20T04:40:25.227-08:002011-02-20T04:40:25.227-08:00As usual very nicely summed up and quite true. It...As usual very nicely summed up and quite true. It is always difficult when one believes in the cause, stopping whaling, but abhors the tactics used. 'Wats-his-name' is a self-centered cult leader whose ego has burst its banks, if not yet a blood vessel<br />Good Watch.D. Peter Boucher, Kt. SMOM, Dip. LA., MM (Ret.)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13548730100057506930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591067151103789843.post-33027328689488272062011-02-19T21:34:44.104-08:002011-02-19T21:34:44.104-08:00Hi Peter,
I hoped you'd weigh in on this one....Hi Peter,<br /><br />I hoped you'd weigh in on this one. Frankly, you're able to take higher moral ground on this one than I can. Because at the end of the day most of Sea Shepherd are true believers, however misguided. When I was a terrorist it was mostly for monetary gain. That I was basically a mercenary and a nuclear terrorist is inexcusable, but I can't change the past. But I'm not willing to compound those sins by being a hypocrite. I forfeited my moral high ground years ago when it comes to such things. Time will tell if Sea Shepherd's higher-speed craft have in fact brought about and end to Japanese whaling. But the fact remains that they placed themselves in harm's way to save the whales while I sat at home and did nothing. <br /><br />John Brown, the abolitionist, was cut of a similar cloth to Sea Shepherd. He was genuinely psychotic, dangerously irresponsible and basically a nutburger. And, he was probably more directly responsible for emancipating the slaves than Lincoln was. Sometimes the ends do justify extreme means. And sometimes the road to heaven really is paved with evil intentions. <br />Zealots, regardless of their cause or motives, scare the hell out of me. But Emerson once said "blessed is the rebel, for without him there is no change". <br />For now, the whales are not being killed. For now, maybe, that is enough.Captain Robert Reederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14500768952960978516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591067151103789843.post-41788395982051551612011-02-19T15:15:58.572-08:002011-02-19T15:15:58.572-08:00Let us not count our chickens er whales before the...Let us not count our chickens er whales before the next season. The viewpoint of NAUTICAL LOG is well known as is our opinion of SSCS. You can read it in the many posts written over several years. If an action is wrong in and of itself it is still wrong even if the cause is good.<br />Good Watch.D. Peter Boucher, Kt. SMOM, Dip. LA., MM (Ret.)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13548730100057506930noreply@blogger.com