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He's not a biologist, he's a lawyer. And if cutting up a whale with a chainsaw is normal day-to-day stuff in his family... that's pretty fucking weird.
It is quite weird but in a cool way. I mean, I collect teapots. He collects animal skulls. Which of us is more badass?
Neither of you.
You're telling me that a man beheading a whale with a chainsaw because he wants its skull as a trophy isn't badass? I suppose it's a matter of opinion and no one's opinion is wrong, but your opinion is wrong.
Yeah, that's exactly what we're saying. It's weird and barbaric and unnecessary.
You just say that because he's a conservative. I bet that if Harris had a collection of severed heads, you would approve.
That is absolutely not true and you're an asshole for suggesting that.
He's an asshole for what he did, regardless of political affiliation. I didn't even know he was republican before commenting.
But now I know, and it's just reinforcing that world view you seemed so defensive about.
Yeah, it’s practically psychopathic. Mutilating a corpse with a tool for cutting trees for a “trophy” is fucking insane. He didn’t catch and eat the whale. He didn’t hunt and take down a monster to feed himself and his family.
He found a washed up corpse and went and got a chainsaw to cut off its head so he could show off the skull. It’s fucking weird at best.
Your skipping the wearing plastic bags with holes cut into them over their heads with juices squirting into the car smelling absolutely rank and people all around you flicking off your children and family. Nothing badass there, just bad parenting and craziness.
You ever read a comment and immediately know "This guy thinks WWE is real"?
Of course I do!
I don't find driving to a beach with your child to carve up a dead whale with a chainsaw (is that even legal?), bungeeing it into the car and then driving down the road with "whale juice" flooding into the car to be badass, just bad parenting.
Also, claiming to be a big environmentalist and having an animal skull collection is not the best look.
Nothing wrong with it if they were collected ethically. Would you find it odd that arborists collect tree trunk slices?
Is it ethical to drive down to the beach with your kid, cut off a whale's head with a chainsaw and drive it home in your car?
I doubt it's even legal, let alone ethical.
From the article:
It does not sound legal.
From NOAA.gov
Edit: Great job by an environmental attorney...
That act in itself is ethically neutral.
Why are you implying that legality has any impact on the ethics of the situation?
Although legality and ethics do not always coincide, they often influence each other. Many laws are based on ethical principles, such as the protection of human rights, wildlife, or the environment. They reflect a societal consensus that actions that violate these principles are both unethical and should be illegal.
In this case, RFK Jr. most likely violated several laws like the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) which make it illegal to disturb, remove, or possess any part of a whale, even if it's dead, without a permit. This is not "normal" behavior.
What makes you the arbiter of what is ethical?
I'm not.
Aren't you the one that asked if it was ethical? Did you not want an answer?
Sure. Why is it "ethically neutral" to expose a child to such things on a regular basis? Again, this was supposedly a day-to-day occurrence.
You just asked me for the answer, so in this case, you! Your second sentence does imply that you are, as the "not even X, let alone Y" implies that to reach Y you must pass X.
Please answer the question: Why is it ethically neutral to intentionally expose a child (he wasn't passing by, he found out it happened and drove there with his daughter) to such things on a day-to-day basis?
Its not my onus to answer that, that's akin to trying to prove a negative. As the one making the claim, you are supposed to try to prove it. How is exposure to a whale carcass unethical?
Because exposing children to traumatic things can cause psychological issues and watching someone carve up a whale with a chainsaw is pretty damn traumatic for a normal child.
Let me guess: "Prove that it's traumatic."
Nope, it's pointing out that you're moving goalposts.
You asked my why it was unethical. I told you. What goalpost did I move?
You're not an ethicist, you're a mod. Forming an opinion about someone else's hobbies is...well, kinda weird.
I'm not a mod in this community.
Also, why do I have to be an ethicist to call someone's hobby a weird hobby?
Because they didn't have to move the goal posts again because you hadn't revealed yourself to be an ethicist.
Gatekeeping opinions is pretty weird Bro. Don't be that kind of weird.
No one should be forming their own opinions. That goes completely against Xi Think and is dangerous to a free society.
Mods not allowed to have opinions! Not even in the small niche corner of this already niche corner of the internet.