The Cove

The cove was a very extremist video.  There was a lot of effort put into it to show how dolphins were being treated in Taiji.  It was very over the top and it was blown way out of proportion than it should have been.  The main guy could have done the video differently to show how he felt about the dolphins in Taiji.  I think he had a good cause for it but he took it way too far.  It is sad to see dolphins being rounded up in a small area and taking away by dolphin trainers.  It is also very sad to see the left over dolphins being rounded up in another small cove and being killed.  He showed these things to provoke an emotion response out of people.  He did a good job showing the video in a way that will probably have a big emotional response out of a lot of people.  I think he felt that if he made the video as sad as possible that he will gain the most support from other people.  There were a lot of high definition cameras at a lot of angles to show how the dolphins killed.  Most of the video was him gathering people and equipment to show what is going on in the Taiji cove.  I don't think it was necessary for him to show how he got the footage from the cove.  I also don't think it was necessary for him to have a lot of people and equipment to do so.  He could have done it with only just a couple of cameras and only a couple of people.  There was no need to go all out.  He was also acting on a cause that wasn't even in his country.  He was interfering in affairs of a foreign country.  I don't think he has the right to interfere with a foreign country.  If what people were doing in Taiji was a threat to the world, he would have a good reason to interfere but it's not.  He just has a really big affection for dolphins and took it too far to show how one place is being cruel to dolphins.  There are probably other countries that do whaling or maybe something similar with dolphins but he never talks about those countries.  He puts too much effort into one place.  If he wanted to show cruelty of dolphins, he could have gone to other places in the world to show it too.  I don't think dolphins are going extinct.  If dolphins were going extinct he would have a better argument.  He didn't do a very good job explaining if the dolphin population of the world was being affected by the dolphin killings in Taiji.  The only fact he provided was that about 23,000 dolphins are killed in that cove a year.  That is a a big number but it could be a false number.  I don't see how he could know that if he isn't allowed in a restricted area.  He had a hard enough time just getting footage of the cove.  There is no way he is there all year counting  dolphins.  He had the big number to have an emotional effect on people even if it isn't true.  I think he put way too much effort into one cove.  If he wanted to show cruelty of dolphins, he could have done so on a world wide scale.