fuck political correctness, there are some awful motherfuckers in this words and if you don't stand out and burn their fucking ship, nothing is gonna happen.
The problem is that someone HAS to uphold the laws completely for they to stay consistent, If everyone just thought "fuck it, i don't agree with this so i'll break this law by doing something to hinder it", it would escalate, and be done on smaller and smaller levels. Maybe attacking whaler ships is not the worst thing in the world, but its the principle that matters, if everyone just allowed this to happen, what kind of message will this show other people?
Attacking the vessels is going about the issue the EASY way. It's the same thing with Israel breaking war rules when using WP and guided missiles against human targets, it's fucking illegal and against the geneva convention. But its EASY compared to conventional warfare. And they kill the palestine terrorists dead. And in this example too, there are two wrongs, two parties doing illegal things, there's nothing right about what the terrorist do there(even though imo they have the right for their land).
What message does this send to the terrorists? It sends a clear message that all means are ok, rules don't matter.
There's a reason why soldiers chose to DIE instead of using an ambulance as a means of escape; It's to preserve a RULE, that ALL units with a big red cross on them, are NOT targets and will have safe passage.
And its the same in this scenario, and on a bigger scale too, we have to bite our tounges and do shit the hard way, to preserve the greater good of our society's stability.
And to be honest, I'd rather have a preserved society, than a bunch of happy whales.
And yes, this incident will matter in the stability, everything does, and we have to minimize incidents as much as physically possible, because it is a snowball effect.
Something will happen, whether or not it will be in time, is an other matter, but setting THIS example to the world(that if you use enough violence and disregard laws you get what you want) is NOT the way to go about. Be fucking civil about it.