Iceland Rocks: Or, How Is Eating Whale Like Voting for President? A Guest Post eftir Nathan Myhrvold: [...] Confounding this rational analysis is an additional fact: whaling is really about pride, not economics. There has been little if any economic reason to hunt whales for many years. Nations that still hunt whales in the 21st century do so for two reasons. First, they have a tradition of whaling that resonates culturally. Second, they have a contrarian streak: they don’t want the rest of the world to tell them what to do. [...]

Mér finnst þessi greining nokkuð augljós. Það er algjör brandari að ætla að nota einhver efnahagsrök fyrir hvalveiðum þegar þetta snýst ekki um neitt annað en sérhagsmuni, kúltúr og stolt.

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