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by arcticfox 2738 days ago
> This is really a communication problem, guys. Whaling could have been ended many years ago, if no one made such a big deal out of it.

I don't follow that conclusion at all. Really doesn't seem like that's how it would have played out to me; maybe it wouldn't have been worse than it is today, but I can't imagine they were simply being encouraged to whale to be ornery.