So, we've probably all been introduced to efilism and pro-mortalism at this point, thanks to the IVF clinic bomber. Well, today, I learned of an additional off-shoot, which makes sense as a logical extension of the underlying logic but which still twisted me around a bit. It argues that we should take the suffering of wild animals as seriously as we do that of humans and domesticated animals, sounding the surface like one of the primary justifications for veganism. However, it then proposes a couple of interesting solutions for this suffering: eliminating animals that are predators and *sterilizing all the others.* It makes the final leap from "human life should end" to "all life should end, and we should have a hand in ending it."

What I've been thinking about as a result of all of this is that these people, starting from a place of concern over suffering, and sometimes likely with genuine empathy, are...turning themselves into something like supervillains. They are becoming enemies of life writ large. Of course, they would argue that their proposals are morally and ethically sound, and would save us all. But a damn lot of historically awful people thought at the time that they were doing something good.

Very, very bizarre and somewhat distressing.