Nationalism is one of the main causes of war.
Poor seals. If they did this in America I'd want to leave it even more than I do now!
oh, yeah, and edited to add that I think because you guys are so proud of your nation, (it's who you are) you seem to take this as a personal bashing to YOU and then you start to tell yourself that it isn't really all that bad because other nations do stuff the same and worse, when really it is ALL cruel and needs to be talked about.