You... You really have no idea how batshit insane you sound when you say that, do you?

No. What I did was declare your Harry Potter potions class to be bullshit medicine. The things you advocate cannot survive under the system I call “scientific” because they are witchcraft and are therefore fake medicine.

like this lady shooting the poor giraffe I want to see her heroism when she meets those brave lions

They went somewhere with the intent of killing some animals, so it seems perfectly fair for some animals to end up killing them no? 

Rhinos don’t breed as fast as cows or sheep. The zoos that try to breed them are happy to get a single calf, and tried in vain for decades to breed the Northern White Rhino before the last male died. And those were large organisations with scientific labs, not a little village.

Quackery is quackery. 

Not really. Every culture has it’s baggage. People used to throw people in volcanoes or sacrifice children on alters. Because that was their “culture” should that kind of thing be preserved? Naaa. Educating people and changing their thinking is the way forward. Society does change. As an example, despite the backwards…

This, so much. Every time someone says “Passing a law to regulate X won’t matter because people will just break it,” I wonder “So why aren’t you advocating for legalized murder and theft?”

Demand for drugs when they’re illegal isn’t nil, but it is reduced. Hence the words “to reduce the market” not “eliminate the market.” 

Actually, probably a heart eating story. 

especially when traditional medicine seems to only rely on endangered animal parts and not shit that is in abundance, and is only for the treatment of DICK related issues. you never hear about a kudzu poacher collecting vines to cure eczema. I’d be all for it, even without science to back it up, if it was even…

There is no sustainable quantity for rhino horn. There are too few rhinos to start culling them for horn. We need all of them alive if we want them to continue as a species.

Seriously, it’s time to go medieval on everyone involved in this trade, from the poachers to the importers to the stores selling this snake oil to the morons who buy it.  Set up scam stores and when some idiot comes in for “traditional medicine” because he can't get it up, blow his fucking head off.

They just need to educate people and eliminate the market. It’s the demand and rarity that causes price. Unfortunately, most people are stupid and you can’t tell them shit if they already believe in mumbo jumbo.

There, they are used in traditional Asian medicines, making them a valuable commodity.

“The kinds of people who hunt them either see these animals as dollar signs or as a way to save themselves and their people. Or maybe both.”

To me, no amount of money makes sense. You could offer it all to me. It wouldn’t convince me that going out and poaching a rhino would be a good idea.

Come on, it’s ok:

This is a heartwarming story.

I don’t feel sorry for the poachers.  At all.  I feel sorry that the money is too good for them to pass up, but I will not shed tears when they meet ends like this.  Although it would be a better world if we could eliminate the demand for these materials.