is it ok to be a sea shepherd?

[Terrance]

"But, though though the world scouts at us whale hunters,
yet does it unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea,
an all-abounding adoration! for almost all the tapers,
lamps, and candles that burns round the globe, burn, as
before so many shrines, to our glory!" 

Our Glory? Oh Ishmael you foolish advocate, you know nothing
of whaling still. 


"That great America on the other side of the sphere,
Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the
whaleman."


Thank you mates, excellent diologue,  

Terrance




jbor wrote:
> 
> "Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honoring us whalemen,
> is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a butchering sort
> of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we are surrounded by
> all manner of defilements. Butchers we are, that is true. But butchers,
> also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been all Martial Commanders
> whom the world invariably delights to honor. And as for the matter of the
> alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into
> certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole,
> will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest
> things of this tidy earth. But even granting the charge in question to be
> true; what disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the
> unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers
> return to drink all ladies' plaudits? And if the idea of peril so much
> enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye
> that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly
> recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies
> the air over his head. For what are the comprehensible terrors of man
> compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!"
> 
> Ishmael, Ch 24 'The Advocate'
> *Moby Dick, or, The Whale* by Herman Melville