So I am reading through hundreds of pages of NGO and UN do-gooding development reports, that uniformly decry the lack of sanitation in the world, and the toll that this takes on millions of lives. 4500 deaths from diarrhoea daily, cholera, dysentery. And I am struck by how much of these reports are about preserving human life, without questioning whether the preservation of human life is what human life should be obsessed with. Excuse the nihilism but I have been wondering about this. Then today I read this and this and think that the human species is often an abomination and not worth preserving. Does anyone know which philosophers explore such lines of thought? Peter Singer?
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