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Their experiences may be more simple than ours, but are they less intense? Perhaps a caterpillar’s primitive pain when squashed is greater than our more sophisticated sufferings.

— Richard D. Ryder Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

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Our first moral concern should always be with the individual who is the maximum sufferer.

Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

It is always wrong to cause pain to A merely in order to increase the pleasure of B.

Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

We have an obligation to try to reduce the pains of others, wherever they are, and however the pains have been caused.

Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

The implication of painism is that political policies should extend to individuals of all nations, races, and species on an 'equal pain equal treatment' basis.

Putting Morality Back Into Politics (2006)

We all, thank goodness, feel a natural spark of sympathy for the sufferings of others. We need to catch that spark and fan it into a fire of rational and universal compassion.

All beings that feel pain deserve human rights (2005)

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