The local McDonald's will probably do fine. The conservationists will probably show up and eat a bunch of french fries.
This is a tough situation. The Indians may believe that it's ok for them to kill a few whales. When you get right down to it, if only the Makahs kill a few gray whales, it probably wouldn't be a big deal. But if you add to that a few California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbian, and Alaskan industries dumping all sorts of crud in the water, the conservationists and the rednecks and all supporting all those industries, and the Japanese, Russian, Polish, and wherever else whalers just wanting to take another crack at things, you have a real problem.
We have the history that the "white man" ran the Indians off and proceeded to destroy everything in his wake, and now we have the white man saying that he's done all the destruction possible, so the Indians can't kill a few whales. An anomoly of history. A real cultural problem. A real philosophical problem. I wish I knew the answer. |
