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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1695737" data-attributes="member: 12449">I disagree, there is no such thing as bad publicity in situations such as this. If the Sea Shepard and like-minded groups didn't stand up and engage in such activities, the whale hunts would simply continue out of the public eye, out of the news and quite possibly unchallenged.However, activities such as this keep the media focus, keep the issues in the front of people's minds and continue to highlight the issue to the general public - sure, many of the general public will also criticize the Sea Shepard group, but if their passing thought is 'Idiot protesters, but this whale hunting has to end' then surely some good has come, those same persons are then more likely to be supportive of potential diplomatic pressures on the Japanese, etc.</blockquote>