So, every year in Japan (you know, the modern, industrialized country that owns a good deal of America?), the government sanctions an annual “dolphin drive,” in which it gives permits to Japanese fisherman to club and butcher thousands of dolphins (21,000 permits were given out this year). When asked to defend the process, the Japanese government could only come up with three excuses:
(1) it is an important cultural activity (I’ve seen this excuse before...where was that? Oh yeah...for female genital mutilation and Southern slavery.);
(2) the government issues permits only for the number of dolphins that can be slaughtered without threatening the species’ survival (It’s one thing to say that you’re issuing permits to hunt animals to keep ecological population balance, but another to say that you issue just enough permits to make sure the animal doesn’t go extinct.); and
(3) the practice is limited to economic development zones with struggling fishermen (Honestly, the ecology of the world would probably be improved by less human population - see point #2).
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