Should whaling be allowed or globally outlawed?
Why should whales be treated than other animals?
Should traditional cultures (e.g. Inuit) be allowed to retain their tradition of whaling?

i just love how you pick these controversial topic every other day

Hey, I'm just trying to bring some life to the forums. And other stuff.
I've got a list of different debate I'm going to use, but I'm only going to do one at a time, to try and keep things fresh.
Which do you think I should use for my next one, 'ghandi sucks' or 'starwars vs startrek'?

Whaling is wrong.

is there eny 1 here who supports whaling

I expected more from this topic, you guys must be a bunch of tree hugging hippies or something (boo).

What exactly is so wrong with whaling though?
We eat plenty of other animals, why should whales be different?
Sustainability can't be the problem, because many fish stocks are being dangerously over fished, and most people don't seems to care about that.
It can't be because they're intelligent, because pigs are comparatively intelligent, and people eat those all the time.
And on the plus site to eating whale, it's free range, which can be argued to be less cruel than how we keep farmed animals in small spaces and such.

It seems that most people have just been told to believe whaling is wrong.

BAN WHALING

bann it now

BAMP.

Guess who is back. This Fake guy starts controversy but doesnt keep it alive. You need to be able to support both positions to keep discussion and debate going. You. Need. The. Last. Word. You cant just ask questions, many BD residents are very young and cant be stuck into the discussion like that, step aside youngling

Got bored Sunday night, finished my course work and obviously..

Whaling, under current restrictions should be allowed

They are hunting Minkes which have stable, populations which are not endangered.

People complaining about "OH NOES THEY ARE INTELLIGENT, HOW DARE THEY" ignore the fact that pigs are as smart if not smarter than dogs and yet thousands die for bacon every year. Hypocrisy at its finest because people have been taught to give unwavering respect for these cetaceans.

Its hard to measure, but pigs and whales have equivalent intelligence although the whales will pull slightly ahead (just as pigs pull ahead of dogs and cats)

Hypocrisy.

Hippocrites the lot of you. Eating that sweet sweet pork but hating on eating dog/whales. At least be consistent in your carnivorous behaviour.

Ban whaling and condemn many fisheries from iceland to finland to japan to close. To impose international will without any basis is to impose imperialism at its worst.

Here is an idea, ban chicken, cow, lamb and pork farming. How is that now? Is that fair? Animal farming is often very (Want to be allies? Sometimes I like to pretend I am a princess riding a pony..), cruelty is bound to happen, ban it all. To condemn hundreds of farmers to unemployment? See, that is what you argue for

BOOMPED

BUMPED

BOMPED

i like how most of you are just posting "WHALING BAD" and leaving it at that. post why dammit.