whale wars Still, this is an arena where Watson insists he has the moral imperative to take strong action. “You don’t walk down the street and see a woman being raped and do nothing,” he said in the interview. “And you don’t stand there and watch whales die and do nothing but hang banners and take pictures.” My sense, in this case, is that efforts by environmental and animal-welfare campaigners to track and document this whale hunt in international.
waters have provided a vital public service. Governments don’t have the capacity to patrol those waters and journalists certainly don’t, either. The decision by Watson and his crew to take things further, intervening directly, is justifiable to me (I wouldn’t do it personally) only as long as he sticks to his pledge (in the video and elsewhere) not to hurt people or break laws.
That’s a fine line and open to lots of varied interpretation, particularly on the high seas. Every environmental and animal-welfare campaign, in theory, has the goal of putting itself out of business. It appears that, for now at least, Watson is able to shift from his longstanding prime target — the Japanese fleet harpooning in Antarctic waters under a program described as research but widely criticized as an end run around a moratorium on commercial whaling.
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