DeletedUser
It seems to me the best solution would be to make the Whale plant a diamond supply option rather than a virtual necessity for players since there are many who are offended by it. Talking about "reality" is something of a red herring, or maybe whale, as the game has so many other "unreal" features in city construction that using that for the basis of defense for the Whale Plant clearly isn't going to work as an argument in itself. One can't, for just one example, readily claim that a given city was more likely to need whaling than a printing press, yet the printing press is optional and the whale plant close to a necessity for those lucky or unlucky enough to have to come up as a resource. Either move it to a diamond extra or even just make it a supply plant that players could then choose not to acquire if it offends them. And let's not turn this into a "right or wrong" issue about being offended, those who are have good reasons for not liking it and those who aren't can justify their reasons as well.