When Different Species Cooperate For The Greater Good

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I didn't mean he was going to eat the Rhino.
He was going to make money off it and feed his family.
Someone else, higher up, was going to make a lot more money off it.
Well that human's death would have felt even better.

I'm sure he had other choices.
I just don't like the fact that none of us know his situation, but we're applauding his death.
Valuing an animal's life over a human's life.
Make sense to you?
Fine.

Couldn't he have just made the money to feed his family by killing some other animal, one that isn't critically endangered and living in a protected area?

Rhino poaching is an extremely high risk venture.  If the man was thinking of his family, maybe he could have picked something with a lower chance of being killed and eaten by wild animals in an area where he shouldn't have been in the first place.  Because of his decision to try and poach a rhino, his family have lost their breadwinner. He was committing a criminal act that was the result of stupid choices, no matter how noble his motives may have been.

And look at it this way - if the elephant hadn't killed him, the lions might not have eaten that day.  Circle of life and all that.

Boru