1. It's not a crime. Please cite evidence to it being a crime if you wish to persist in pushing this lie.
2. Because these facts about piracy are well established by credible historians worldwide over period of several thousands of years.

Their research is very clear cut when you stop listening to what Sea Sheperd et al think about it, and what the people actually doing the research tell you.

They look at things like contents of stomachs, cellular toxin levels and other things that you can't get without catching whales and based on observations map things like migratory routes, approximate size of current population of specific whales, effect of various types of pollution on whales and so on.

In most cases, while you can vote a war into existence, it will end when someone loses. Not when you vote it out of existence.
Financial policies are similar. Once things like controls on capital movement have been lifted, it's essentially impossible to vote them back.

Exactly the same argument is usable against:

US and it's handling of "we're the 99%" protests.
UK and it's handling of London riots.
Etc.

That is far from the only instance where you can vote to damage yourself severely. You can also vote for things like starting wars, or implementing policies that will take resources from you and give to others.

Cite actual numbers with sources please. Kroats were butchering almost as many, and Bosnians were butchering less simply because they were losing. It's usually victors that do the butchering.

NATO for example had to threaten kroats with bombing them after they successfully suppressed serb military and kroats basically took over as the biggest butchers of the region.

By this definition, every single society that has ever existed has been a dictatorship. Because rule of the law by definition requires a man who will interpret the law and how it should be applied to any given case.

In general, "something fishy" is currently going on with exploitation of most if not all marine resources. Whales have become something of an easy scapegoat to divert attention from far more serious issues such as actual depletion of common fish stocks, fighting over fights to extract hydrocarbons from below seabed and so on.

Air. You on the other hand appear to be either indeed smoking hallucinogenics or refusing to see the reality that people around the world are very much willing to sell freedoms for sense of security, be it real or false.

Cite international laws that require what you claim they require please.

There was a claim that a crime has been committed. That means:

1. There is a legislation that has in fact defined such act as criminal.
2. This legislation has jurisdiction over the territory where act has been committed.
3. There is significant evidence of the act.

Surely, citing necessary laws would not be difficult considering how well researched the topic is. That is, if this claim was true. Which it isn't.

One does not exclude the other. When it comes to fishing, humans and many other species are in a natural competition. For example dolphins who are one of the most successful competitors for fish with human fishermen have been killed by fishermen as often as possible, not unlike lions killing smaller predators whenever they get the chance even though they don't eat them.

I'm not defending religion. I'm merely arguing that Erdogan is a democratically elected leader pushing for what his constituents want. In fact, if you search for my responses in this very thread, you'll find me damning all Judaism-based religions rather harshly.

Many people here in the West are inherently programmed by propaganda that "democracy" is a driving force for good, rather then simply a form of governance that grants majority control. In this regard, it could be said that "belief in democracy" is just another religious movement.

Then according to your unique interpretation, there isn't a single democratic society in existence, and there has not been one in existence at any given point in human history.

Piracy is a crime aimed at people. Whaling is extraction of natural resource.

Comparing the two like this seriously requires a person sociopathic enough to actually associate violent crime that involves murder, rape and torture with extraction of marine resources .