To save you, you must die!

I know this was a story about a week ago; however, I’d still like to share my thoughts on the situation. A hunting club in Texas is trying to raise money to prevent the extinction of the black rhino, wait for it, by auctioning a permit to allow a black rhino to be killed in Namibia. Yes, you read right they want to prevent the extinction of the black rhinos by killing one. Has it hit how stupid that is? Only 4,800 black rhinos are alive in the African wild.  They believe that the permit will sell for about 250,000 to a possible 1 million, with 100% of the profit going to The Conservation Trust Fund for Namibia’s Black rhino. The auction is “trying” to justify the permit by saying that the rhino being auctioned off to be slaughtered will most likely be an older rhino that already reproduced but can no longer, and that prevents younger rhinos from reproducing. Please can someone tell me how this justifies even an ounce of this so called effort to “Save the black rhinos from extinction”? I’ll wait. Can’t think of a good one? That’s because there isn’t one! How on this green earth does putting an endangered animal on a pedestal to be murdered good for the cause? Just because the rhino is older and can no longer reproduce it, should be murdered? Does this mean that this should be done with not only animals but also humans? Because as we all know there comes a time where eventually humans can no longer reproduce healthy offspring. Does the idea seem sick, twisted, and revolting? That’s because it is. There is no good reason to murder an amazing and beautiful animal that is already on the brink of extinction just because it has a few scratches’ on its skin and can no longer reproduce. If these millionaires are as eager as they claim to be to saving the black rhino, why not just donate the money without tainting it with blood of an innocent animal? Probably because they want the sick pleasure of being able to say that, they killed a black rhino. I doesn’t matter how much they try to justify what they doing this sure isn’t the way. Selling a permit to murder an endangered animal by killing one of the very endangered animals is disgusting, and hypocritical to say the least.

                 Isamar