There is no cause so noble that you should sacrifice your children to its altar. Shame on you.
After 15-years in DC, I have noticed that those noble activists who are saving the world have yet to save themselves, their marriages, their families, and their children.
The children of many of the founders of these organizations are a mess, with boys and girls as scared and abandoned as the children of their more celebrated Hollywood celebrities and New York robber barons. They are cared for by nannies and oftentimes never see their parents for weeks at a time.
All because one or more of their parents are making sacrifices for a higher, nobler cause: saving the whales. Or some similar cause celebre.
The illusion of nobility associated with saving pagan babies, the rain forest, the whales, or the trees is pure distraction from the things that matter most in this life which is saving yourself, protecting and loving your children, your spouse, your parents, your family, and your community.
If you have all of your ducks in a row, if your children are happy and well-adjusted, if your health is good and you get enough sleep and exercise, if you still chase your spouse around the bed pretty regularly, and you call your mother, with energy to spare for yourself, then you have the right to save the whales.
Otherwise, you are chasing phantoms, you are wasting your time, and you had better still yourself enough to remember why you got married, why you had children, and whether the whales really matter to you any more or if you’re just used to saving the whales.
Otherwise, let the whales fend for themselves for a little while while you get yourself together.
If you disrespect your own family enough to abandon them for your noble cause then the whales are better off without you. Resign from your save the whales campaign immediately, move to New York, and settle in to a life on Wall Street.
If you’re going to be ignoble, you might as well do it for money. The entire order cetacea recognize hypocrisy when they see it and they don’t want any of your filthy lucre anyway.
(Special Thanks to Paul Roberts of P.R.A.D.E. (Paul Roberts Amateur Design Enthusiast The blog for the untrained but discriminating design eye) — the Photoshop God — who hooked me up with the Don’t Save the Whales graphic)
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YOU ARE SO RETARDED!! hope you choke on a piece of beef jerky!!
your stupid!!!
dont say dont save the whales because you need to save yourself first. i love whales and im trying t save whales and im only 17 i have loving parents who are also trying to save whales and were not disfunctional or falling apart or any thing you said were just fine and to generalize that all people who try and save our planet are neglecting their families is BULL. your just pissed that you cant save the world and you probably cant fix your own family.
You are very stupid. No more comments.
I may well be stupid, but I am not alone. Thanks for joining me.
SAVE THE WORLD! SAVE THE WHALES!
God Agrees with Chris Abraham That We Should not Save the Whales (well, at least Paul does… but then, he’s a rabid homophobe and a chauvinist pig, so…)
In any case, it’s in the scriptures, so it’s right.
1 Timothy 3
This saying is trustworthy: “If anyone aspires to be a leader of his community, he desires a noble work.” Such a leader, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher, not addicted to wine, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy; one who manages his own household competently, having his children under control with all dignity. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s house?) He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil. Furthermore, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, so that he does not fall into disgrace and the Devil’s trap.
I am surely and indeed a Godly man. Fuck the whales.
i’m not sure of what your point is?! whats wrong with trying to save the whales, or any animal for that matter? why are you saying that only whales shouldn’t be saved? why not all other endangered species? i think you are wrong as i know many do, but i do not see your selfish view as to be right, yes you can look after your family or whatever your trying to say, but why not doing things for other people or animals other than yourself? please enlighten me with your selfish attitude to life
No, you have it backwards. Social conservatives need to give up on campaigning for lower taxes, anti-abortion, anti-immigration and other big, abstract, phantom ideas until they exemplify liberal folk wisdom, i.e. spending more time going to protests, writing letters on behalf of amnesty, and, well, sending checks to greenpeace.
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I don’t even understand the logic of what you suggest. Would you please explain this to me? Maybe someone can explain the logic behind what you’re saying. In most cases, I am snarky — but in this case, I really want to know. Explain your logic to me because it seems like the two concepts are mutually exclusive.
FUCKING WALE KILLER: YOUF UCKING SHOULD DIE TOO BECAUSE WE HATE PEOPLE LIKE YOU BITTER OLDMAND YOU HAVE NO FRENS AND YOU SHOULD DIE NOTHE WALES! HOW WOULD YOU LIEKTO BE SUFFOCATED AND KILT WITH NETS LIKE DOLPHONS FOR NO REASONS SO JAPANESE CAN EAT THEMß
umm ur sick =[ how could u not save the whales? they can fend for themselves if stupid rue people didnt kill themand screw up their natural environments, so someone has to clean up the worlds mess.
You are the stupiest person I have ever heard speak in my life. If you think that allowing people to kill innocent animals is okay, then I suggest that you go seek mental help. Your theory of not saving whales is stupid, just like you. You missed me off so much that words cannot describe. You better watch your back, because you are going to get everything you deserve, which will not be good. You are a bad person and only bad things will come to you. It is one thing to say that you don’t like whales. But to say that they should not be saved is wrong!! You need to reconsider the things you post. You are spreading a bad message that nobody should hear. You talk about young children, but you are the one setting a bad example for them. If you are looking somebody to argue with on the subject, that person is not me, because I will win. So go ahead and step at me bacause I am always ready to defend the whales!!
For the millionth time, simple logic dictates that saying, “Don’t Save the Whales” doesn’t mean “kill the whales.”
Hey there, again. I think what I am addressing with these articles is how carefully people don’t read and how completely wrong believing what you read is. Caveat lector! Let the reader beware. I try to make people consider the source, to consider what is being said.
Don’t save has never meant kill. The comprehension skills of the general populace is not my responsibilities. Here is what I do say:
If you have all of your ducks in a row, if your children are
happy and well-adjusted, if your health is good and you get enough
sleep and exercise, if you still chase your spouse around the bed
pretty regularly, and you call your mother, with energy to spare for
yourself, then you have the right to save the whales.
I think maybe you just read the title only because none of the rest of the article says “kill the whales.”
If the whales have friends like all the people who have responded to my article then they don’t need enemies.
Besides, the people who think they’re really saving the whales by writing a check while still using plastics and driving and not motoring their inflatable between a whaling ship and a whale are naive.
Maybe I wrote the title the way I did to sensationally get you to read the article. Sadly, nobody reads the article, they get stuck on the title.
Tell me in a sentence what the artice is about. If it makes it easier for you then picture the title as being “Save Your Family.” Is that better?
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I am positive that I am not the stupidest person you have ever heard speak in your life, of that I am certain.
In the biggest whale slaughter for a generation, more than 2,000 animals are likely to be directly hunted by the three countries continuing whaling in defiance of world opinion, Japan, Norway and Iceland. And in a crucial political move, this year the pro-whaling nations look likely to achieve their first majority of votes in whaling’s regulatory body, the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
The first development will be brutal, bloody and shocking to many people who might be under the impression that whaling is a thing of the past. But the second may be even more significant for whale welfare in the long term, for it would pave the way for an eventual resumption of commercial whaling, which the 1986 moratorium put on indefinite hold.
Japan is leading the way on both counts. Its whaling fleet is firing harpoons right now in the Antarctic Ocean, hunting 935 minke whales, more than double the number it took last year, all of them under the guise of “scientific” whaling – killing the animals allegedly for research purposes. This label is a fiction which fools no one, as whale meat, popular with Japanese consumers, is sold on the open market.
It is also hunting 10 endangered fin whales – the second-largest animal on earth, after the blue whale – and over the next two years will seek to harpoon 40 more fin whales, and 50 humpbacks, the big whales whose spectacular “breaching” – leaping from the water – delights observers on whale-watching cruises.
Norway, which is pursuing commercial whaling openly by simply declining to adhere to the moratorium, is following close behind, with another leap in its planned kills in the coming year. Four days before Christmas, the Norwegian government announced it would increase its 2006 whale hunting quota by a further 250 animals to 1,052, following a unanimous recommendation by the Storting (Norwegian parliament).
Iceland, which recommenced whaling three years ago, also under the “scientific” label, killed 39 minkes last year and is expected to hunt a similar number in 2006.
That all adds up to by far the bloodiest bout of whale slaughter since the days of full-scale commercial whaling and has greatly angered environmental campaigners.
Do u see whats happening or are u too absorbed in your little try to get attention
we need to help them, they cant help themselves, because people cause them harm, its only right that people help them
What are you doing to help at the moment? At least I offer a forum for conversations like this. What are you doing?
I agree with Chris Abraham. What the rest of you have to say is thoughtless. None of you go out of your ways to save the whales or whatnot, however you are trying to improve your own lives. I bargain thats what anyone would do if they had the choice.
Well-said, Karre, thanks!
why not save the whales? why let people hurt them when they just want to be left alone. you are horrible
why would you want to not save the whales? i think we should save them!coz after all you wouldnt like something like that happening to you… so your wrong and its a mean thing to say…
chris u r stupid! stop wasting your time being horrible! we should protect the whales so they don’t become exstinct! just shut up!
I HATE YOU! YOU ARE HORRIBLE AND NEED TO SHUT UP! LISTEN TO EVERYONE! YOU ARE THE ONE THAT IS WRONG YOU IDIOT!
I love this kinda typical hypocracy – I work with environmentalists that rant daily about the destruction and pollution of our planet and how we should ‘all be doing our bit to combat global warming and reduce pollution’ – but when it comes to closer at home they wouldn’t think twice about sitting there puffing away a packet of 20 cigarettes with a baby under thier arm – pollute the world – hell no – pollute my childrens lungs – hell who cares! – this article is spot on, I see this attitude everyday within the ‘green’ community that I work in, it seems that these people are missing the point its not about ‘not saving the whales’ its about double standards and how people find helping a outside cause so much easier than actually facing the fight within.
Wow, Cozmic, I think I am crying here. Of course, those cigarettes would need to be American Spirits.
yeah right, and rolled using natural hemp paper bought from an independent newsagents they visited on thier bicycle – or more realistically – a packet of malboro cigarettes bought at a large supermarket chain they drove to in thier fossil fueled car – even though its walking distance from thier homes – but hey ho – why would they care, they are relinquished from carrying any guilt cos they are a member of friends of the earth and greenpeace and want to save the whales.
Cozmic Dreamer! Wow! I, myself, moved to Berlin, live in a little apartment, no longer own a car but have a bike and a monthly train/metro/bus pass. I carry a cotton sack in my pocket in case I go to the shops so that I don’t use plastic bags (that end up killing many things in the ocean) and I have not had babies, which are just mouths to feed.
Well, I give up. So many people think I am an evil whale-killer that I will stop fighting. What do you think I am after you read Don’t Save the Whales? Should I be “harpooned and flayed alive?” Well, for those of you who think I kill whales, here are my favorite whale recipes:
http://chrisabraham.com/2008/04/06/cook-the-whale-eat-the-whale/#title
Thats good to hear Chris – ‘plastic aint my bag either’ I too don’t drive a car, I shop locally and haven’t flown on a plane in years, I work for a not-for-profit business that promotes green awareness and raises serious issues on social justice. I have three mouths to feed, clothe and educate. I hope that they grow up eco-aware and care deeply about the world around them…however like most kids they will probably rebel against thier hippie tree hugging parents and turn out to be hideous consuming chavs driving 4×4 gas guzzlers and spend thier spare time hapooning whales :)
I grew up in Hawaii, Cozmic, and have to tell you that I have actually met whales and green sea turtles. The irony here is that all of these comments bely the fact that people have absolutely no respect for people at all. No respect for anyone outside of some imaginary whale. A whale that probably very few people, besides me, have ever swum with. I am a Divemaster and have been diving (both freediving as well as SCUBA diving) with toothed whales (Pilot), baleen whales (Humpback), and dolphins (Bottlenose), and do recognize that they’re gorgeous, amazing, intelligent, beautiful, sentient children of God; however, I think that we are way too too cruel to each other, especially to the PEOPLE around you who really and truly need to be prioritized ABOVE whales or fur seals other things that are OUT THERE. There is plenty of time for OUT THERE after you sort out what to do IN HERE, inside your family.
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are u one of them old men who have no life so they do horrible stuff like this? SAVE THE WHALES!
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