Yet it would also make for an enticing, almost pornographically cynical, essay that would surely stand out, if only briefly, in the toxic, gushing river of disposable word-garbage that is the internet. To even attempt to do so would be akin to aiding and abetting this horrifying act. In fact, thousands of angry, morally indignant readers would share the article with their friends based on the senselessly provocative headline alone.īecause you people just can’t help yourselves.Ĭould you imagine someone actually trying to make the case that the black rhino somehow deserved to be hunted down, one by one, by poachers who know they can sell their horns on the Asian black market for up to $50,000 a pound? Reprehensible. But if they wrote an inflammatory article to that effect, a lot of people would want to read it out of morbid curiosity. No one in their right mind would ever come out in favor of wiping out an entire species they’d have to be ignorant or downright evil. Sad though they may be, however, people are missing one very important point: the annihilation of this innocent creature is also a superb opportunity to write a shamelessly contrary thinkpiece for the sole purpose of squeezing a few extra clicks out of the reading public. Millions expressed their outrage this week, when news made the rounds on social media that the western black rhino has gone extinct.

Western black rhinoceros extinct