Russell wrote:Now, if those environmentalists are really smart they paint the text "研究" on the sides of their ships, and claim that their actions are just a psychological experiment to test the Japanese population for sensitivity to hypocrisy.
That would be clever and inject some much needed humour into the tired sanctimony on both sides.
An honest question, though: where's the hypocrisy? My position again: the ICJ ruled, the Japanese accepted the ruling, read the fine print (surprise surprise) and retooled their research hunt to abide by the conditions. It was a legal decision, and theirs was a legal response, indeed, a very parsed legalistic one, but they participated in the process in good faith and used the system and the law to their own ends. The idea that the ICJ ruling was a moral mandate and the Jpn should abide by the spirit of the ruling is typical childish White Warrior blather, and a much more convenient misreading of the ruling and the case itself, motivated by sanctimony and the moral hypocrisy of cultural imperialism. Aloha Snackbar. Whale's the special on Tuesdays.