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Real cases of suffering ... tend to go unheard. This is not only because people who are genuinely suffering typically lack the resources with which to publicize their condition, but also because ... many forms of suffering deprive people of the very ability to express, sometimes even think, the fact that they are suffering.

— Jamie Mayerfeld Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)

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We might say (again metaphorically) that suffering cries out for its own abolition ... .

Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)

... the duty to relieve suffering comes in two parts: a prohibition against inflicting suffering, and a requirement to prevent it. What we tend to underestimate is less the former than the latter.

Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)

... suffering cries out for its own abolition ... .

Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)

... there may be a crucial difference between thinking that it would have been better if the world had never come into existence, and thinking that we may take it upon ourselves to destroy the life that already exists.

Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)

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