  Infalling matter may destroy a black hole and expose the naked singularity.
Thus, Penrose proposed the weak cosmic censorship conjecture to avoid such a
possibility. On the other hand, if the black hole is not destroyed by infalling
matter, from the second law of black hole thermodynamics, the black hole
entropy should increase due to the information carried by the infalling matter.
In this work, we demonstrate by examples of perturbative near-extremal black
holes in higher derivative gravity theories that the second law implies weak
cosmic censorship. We also compare our proposal to the one developed by Sorce
and Wald based on the first law of black hole thermodynamics and show that the
latter fails to yield weak cosmic censorship in such cases. Finally, we give
proof of our proposal for generic gravity theories.
