Missing FG

[legion]

'kin English teachers, too much holiday for their own good

[matsuki]

Nature is dangerous! Why haven't those hills been concreted over?

Don't get me started...the lemur couldn't understand why I was so happy when I found that the river next to our future red dawn getaway bunker wasn't cemented over. There's a few damns in the area and some sort of power company structure...but no cement walls!!

...and if they ever try...

[Coligny]

you mean:

[wangta]

You start to wonder if people really give a shit about dolphins or whether the issue is just a vehicle for their ambitions as documentary makers.

I'm an unapologetic believer in taking direct action against animal cruelty, such as setting animals free if they can survive outside, against the unbelievable stupidity and abuse like that going on in the hick town of low IQ Taji folk, against the mean little mindset of Japanese who participate in and support whaling 'missions' in international waters of protected species that are more intelligent than them, pretending that their insular ancestors did this as culture whereas in fact Japanese in the past had never heard of the places they are now fucking up with their arrogant cruelty.

However.......if animal activists had gone about the Taji campaign differently, we might have seen some change earlier in the direction of making money for the town through preservationist activties.

For people who proclaim their intelligence, too often the society here seems invested in stupidity and unable to think outside the box.What should have happened was a softer campaign to promote alternatives with assistance and donations from the non Japanese animal rights people and organisations.

The Japanese and other East Asian societies seem incapable of approaching these kinds of issues critically and analytically and incapable of taking the initiative by themselves. I've always said that the Asian talent at maths and IQ tests comes from longer hours in school and enforced memory learning. There are kids in my home country who are not Asian, just as good at maths and science (better at the scientific subjects because they do real experiments and research) and on average they spend about 26 to 30 hrs LESS at school than Japanese, Korean and Chinese kids.

There are certain kinds of thickness in the East Asian societies and as represented by the Taji slaughter, what is needed is a softer approach because there is a lack of critical thinking and also a lag in certain areas because authoritarinism in East Asia had a long term effect of choking up original ideas and movements.

[kurogane]

There are certain kinds of thickness in the East Asian societies and as represented by the Taji slaughter, what is needed is a softer approach because there is a lack of critical thinking and also a lag in certain areas because authoritarinism in East Asia had a long term effect of choking up original ideas and movements.

Do you actually have to make an effort to sound So White or is it a happy byproduct of a good Culture Shock Frothing?

Agreed that dialogue would go a lot further than diatribe has, though I supsect your Softer Approach is just another form of finger wagging rather than an actual conversation.

They either like dolphin or like to like the idea that they like dolphin, and there's nothing wrong with killing it if you eat it, whatever it might be.

BTW, on a professional note, your notions of what can, could or does constitute tradition and custom are sadly lacking.........................which raises the issue of a lack of critical thinking right back atcha!!!!!!!!!

FYI, it probably does count as a tradition simply because of the way it is conducted and its techniques transmitted. Technical and technological innovation and adoption are not in any way, shape or form incompatible with a traditional mode of behaviour. Look at eskimo hunting and the mechanisation of roof thatching.

If you're in the mood and can find it somewhere, Marshall Sahlins is electrically humane on the Eskimo Snowmobile. C'mon.........you'd take a steel blade over a bone one wouldn't ya?

[Russell]

I prefer a bone blade, if someone is trying to kill me with it.

All things are relative...

[kurogane]

No bone of contention there.

[Buraku]

Netflix Japan announces documentary on the infamous Lucie Blackman murder case

https://unseenjapan.com/lucie-blackman- ... y-netflix/