Quote Originally Posted by Seru1 View Post
How can we claim to love freedom and then say to another culture. "You can't eat that because they are beautiful, intelligent, rare, whatever."
This is just screaming ignorant. Sorry, but true.
How can I claim to love freedom and place restrictions on others? Easily and often, that's how. We put restrictions on freedom all the time! It is the only thing that can uphold freedom. It has been said:

"That which is is governed by law is also upheld by it."

The question is, to what degree do we restrict the freedoms of others? By your reasoning, should we make it legal for another country to dump all their toxic waste on our beaches? I mean, they are a free country right? Who am I to say they can't?

I am not trying to personally attack you, but I think that there are a lot of people who need to educate themselves before they comment. I do not love dolphins because they are smart, nor do I love dogs because they are cute, not when it comes to food. Dolphin and whale is strictly environmental for me. If there was an uncontrolled hunting of bears in North america, I would also have something against it. This may be hard to believe, but I am not even an environmentalist. I however feel as though food chains are taken for granted when it comes to our delicate lives. For instance, if bees disappeared, we would not last another generation. If ocean predators disappear, what does that do to the fish stock? It goes up? What do they eat? Algea, which produces a huge percent of our oxygen. 70-80%

There are far too many people that are uninterested in education, and too afraid to take a stance on anything because they think that people should do anything they want because of "freedom".

This is me taking a stance on something that I have educated myself on in order to limit the freedom of others because I think it is harmful to humanity. If I am educated further to believe otherwise, I will whole heartedly change my position.

(For this particular argument, I recommend the documentary, "The Cove". For general ignorance, I suggest education, any and all education.)