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Motion: THW lift the international ban of Whales Government Argument 1 Whales should be treated in the same way as other animals, as a resource to be used for food and other products. No species should be hunted to extinction, but if their numbers are healthy, then there is nothing wrong with hunting whales. Studies of intelligence have been conducted on dolphins, rather than whales, and even these cannot measure intelligence in any useful way. Although people in some western societies view whales as special and therefore in particular need of protection compared to other animals, this view is not widely shared by other societies and to impose it upon others is simply a form of cultural imperialism. Argument 2 Whale numbers are healthy, particularly for minke whales which number over a million, and a resumption of hunting, under regulation, will not adversely affect their survival. The IWC ban was imposed to protect whale numbers,...

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