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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well one it looks very cool (magical perhaps even) and as humans we aren't really made for swimming with whales, so it can feel like a sin to see such beauty when you were never really meant to see it

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's wrong from both atheist and religious viewpoints. Either there is no "never meant to see it", there is no meaning there. Or some God made whales as they are, very curious and often interact with other species, specifically looking at them, either from below or above the water, so then we were meant to see this.

None of those options take away from how cool it is and how magical it looks IMO.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Or maybe they're trying to describe the feeling it evokes and aren't being that literal.